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I think my code will be OK... (i.imgflip.com)

submitted 9 months ago by perishthethought@lemm.ee to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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I know this isn't any kind of surprise, and yet, well...

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[–] Robmart@lemm.ee 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

32bit systems will stop working. The Unix timestamp, which increases by 1 every second and started the first second of 1970, will reach the max of 32 bit integers. Bad things will follow.

[–] bjorney@lemmy.ca 10 points 9 months ago

This has already been patched on all 64 bit OSes though - whatever 32 bit systems are still in existence in another 15 years will just roll their dates back 50 years and add another layer of duct tape to their jerry-rigged existence