The Unix Millennium Bug may cause some computer software to fail before or in the year 2038. The problem affects all software and systems that store system time as a signed 32-bit integer, and interpret this number as the number of seconds since 00:00:00 UTC on Thursday, 1 January 1970.
The latest time that can be represented this way is 03:14:07 UTC on Tuesday, 19 January 2038. Times beyond this moment will 'wrap around' and be stored internally as a negative number, which these systems will interpret as a date in 1901 rather than 2038. This will likely cause problems for users of these systems due to erroneous calculations.
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anyone still using a 32 bit system in 2038 will deserve to have their computer freeze up.
You mean John Titor won't complete his mission?
John Titor returned to 2036 Tampa, Florida, a long time ago. :)
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