Great news, my Sheevaplug can now cross 2038.
What’s a Sheevaplug? https://lemmy.world/comment/7295421
Wow I forgot about those. Always wanted one but too expensive for me at the time.
I know the feeling, I also had to pay extra customs taxes because I’m in Europa and it was sold by an US company. :(
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
The data lost that occurred due to the lack of differentiation between year 1900 and 2000 on calendar systems of the older computers?
Does anyone know when the new date limit will be?
Assuming they went to signed 64-bit time, it should be about 3:28:32 pm UTC on Sunday, December 4, 292277026596. Yes, that last number is a year.
I think all stars in the galaxy will be dead by then.
Holy shit.
