Debian patching 32-bit builds to handle dates beyond 2038 - eviltoast
  • init@lemmy.ml
    141·
    9 months ago

    Didn’t we learn our lesson 24 years ago with Y2K!?

    EDIT: To be clear, I was being facetious. I remember my parents and father freaking out about this when I was in middle school. I would have thought we got this taken care of permanently already

    • BlanK0@lemmy.mlOP
      81·
      9 months ago

      The data lost that occurred due to the lack of differentiation between year 1900 and 2000 on calendar systems of the older computers?

    • Bene7rddso@feddit.de
      7·
      9 months ago

      This mistake was made in the 70s when time was added to UNIX (or maybe already with Multics, idk)