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   Brodie Robertson (brodieonlinux@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 14:27:30 JST Brodie Robertson

   As always, lots of confidently wrong people in my comments:

   1. A 64 bit kernel does not solve the 2038 problem in its entirety. There is literally software you can test today that has 2038 related bugs.

   2. To the surprise of many, the Y2K problem was discovered back in 1958 by Bob Bemer, but no one really cared because who'd expect software to still be in use 40 years later.

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     Brodie Robertson (brodieonlinux@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 16:14:05 JST Brodie Robertson

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     • Henri

     @slyecho Y2K was about handling dates with 2 digits, Y2K38 or the Year 2038 problem is about Unix Time

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     Henri (slyecho@mdon.ee)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 16:14:07 JST Henri

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     @BrodieOnLinux they thought in 1958 that time would be counted as seconds from 1970?

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     Areskul (jean_dupont@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 16:19:50 JST Areskul

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     @BrodieOnLinux You're not concerned if you die before 2038!

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     Brodie Robertson (brodieonlinux@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 23-Jan-2025 16:19:50 JST Brodie Robertson

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     • Areskul

     @jean_dupont True