It's a signed integer, meaning it has the same amount of space for negative numbers as it does for positive ones. Late 1901 is the same amount of time away from Jan 1st 1970 as early 2038 is
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Cosmicomical@kbin.social 7 months agoShouldn't it go back to 1970? Why 1901?
Skua@kbin.social 7 months ago
blargerer@kbin.social 7 months ago
The integer is signed, when it overflows it doesn't go to 0, it goes from Max Positive Value to Max Minimum Value, which will be a very 'large' negative number (-2147483648 to be exact).