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submitted 1 week ago by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (6 children)

'...(potentially setting time back to 1900)...'

From my understanding, unless I'm mistaken, wouldn't the 32 bit time reset back to 1970 after the overflow/rollover?

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

you're wrong, but so was the article, so I guess that cancels out :D it's late 1901

[–] eah@programming.dev 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

That's just a really solid joke.

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