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[–] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 19 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nope, 1901. The seconds don't overflow to 0, they overflow to -2,147,483,648.

[–] RichardDegenne@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Huh, never thought about that. So systems that store timestamps as unsigned integers are fine for another 70 years or so?

[–] urandom@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

now imagine systems that store them as unsigned 64bit integers!

[–] bluesheep@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

Pretty much spot on, 2106.