-At 03:14:08 UTC on 19 January 2038, 32-bit versions of the Unix time stamp will cease to work, as it will overflow the largest value that can be held in a signed 32-bit number. Before this moment software using 32-bit time stamps will need to either adopt a new convention for time stamps or be migrated to 64-bit systems,[15] and file formats using 32-bit time stamps will need to be changed to support larger time stamps or a different epoch. -At 06:28:15 UTC on Sun, 7 February 2106, the Unix time will reach 0xFFFFFFFF or 4,294,967,295 seconds which, for systems that hold the time on 32 bit unsigned numbers, is the maximum attainable. For these systems, the next second will incorrectly be Thursday, 1 January 1970 at 00:00:00. -At 15:30:08 UTC on Sun, 4 December 292,277,026,596[16][17] 64-bit versions of the Unix time stamp will cease to work, as it will overflow the largest value that can be held in a signed 64-bit number. For these systems, the next second will once again be incorrectly indicated as Thursday, 1 January 1970 at 00:00:00. This is not anticipated to pose a problem, however, as this is considerably longer than the time it would take the Sun to theoretically expand to a red giant and swallow the earth. I love how non-chalant the last bullet point is... Some fun info for Nate Appler, Elliot Miller, Aaron Mammen, Steve Ash
Posted on: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 18:17:21 +0000
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