MacN'Cheezus@lemmy.today to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 year agoI remember lemmy.todayimagemessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up1302
arrow-up1302imageI remember lemmy.todayMacN'Cheezus@lemmy.today to memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-21 year agomessage-square18fedilink
minus-squareThenThreeMore@startrek.websitelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up21·1 year agoIt’s because world governments and companies spent a shit load of time and money changing things so it didn’t become an issue. People point to it as a load of fuss over nothing, the only reason for that was that action was actually taken.
minus-squareooterness@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up18·1 year agoOn that note, there will be a similar problem in 2038. It’s just like Y2K but harder to explain, which means management won’t understand, so it won’t get fixed.
minus-squarepewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 year agounix time is 32 bit basically
It’s because world governments and companies spent a shit load of time and money changing things so it didn’t become an issue. People point to it as a load of fuss over nothing, the only reason for that was that action was actually taken.
On that note, there will be a similar problem in 2038. It’s just like Y2K but harder to explain, which means management won’t understand, so it won’t get fixed.
unix time is 32 bit basically