nixCraft 🐧You can never be too careful #y2k that was one hell of the new year 😏😂😓 .. yup that was almost 25 years ago 😉
Simon Zerafa~13 years to the next one 🙂🤷♂️
Befuddled@simonzerafa @nixCraft what's the significance of 1/19/2038?
Olli Graf🚟@strange_child @simonzerafa @nixCraft The 32-bit Unix era counter (seconds since 01/01/70) will overflow on this date.
@Ollital @strange_child @nixCraft
On Windows XP back in the day th OS would crash when connecting to the Internet with a date past that point in time.
Especially if the BIOS RTC date was incorrectly set to past 2038.
The XP internet and networking system seems to have been based on the routines from BSD 🙂🤷♂️