Comment on CFCs

• zik@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s already been addressed in Linux - not sure about other OSes. They doubled the size of time data so now you can keep using it until after the heat death of the universe.

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  • lowleveldata@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Finally it’d be the year of desktop linux with all the windows users die off

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    • Towerofpain11@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This is the funniest comment I have ever read here. Thank you.

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  • Matombo@feddit.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    debian for example is atm at work recompiling everything vom 32bit to 64bit timestamps (thanks to open source this is no problem) donno what happens to propriarary legacy software

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  • dev_null@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Obviously new systems are unaffected, the question is how many industrial controllers checking oil pipeline flow levels or whatever were installed before the fix and never updated.

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    • CLOTHESPlN@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Being somewhat adjacent to that with my work, there is a good chance anything in a critical area (hopefully fields like utilities, petroleum, areas with enough energy to cause harm) have decently hardened or updated equipment where it either isn’t an issue, will stop reporting tread data correctly, or roll over to date “0” which depending on the platform with industrial equipment tends to be 1970 in my personal experience. That said, there is always the case that it will not be handled correctly and either run away or stop entirely.

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  • cqthca@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As a future boltzmann brain, I agree.

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• Scrollone@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  2038 is approaching super fast and nobody seems to care yet

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  • Aceticon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    At the rate of one year per year, even.

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    • CybranM@feddit.nu ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      For each second that passes we’re one second closer to 2038

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      • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Except for leap seconds. Time is the worst to work with :(

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    • lowleveldata@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      omg

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    • trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s 30.4 days per month!!!

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  • Successful_Try543@feddit.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    AfaIk that’s not entirely true, e.g. Debian is changing the system time from 32 bit integer to 64 bit. Thus I assume other distros do this as well. However, this does not help for IOT devices running deprecated Linux distributions.

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    • smeg@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      industrial or IOT devices running deprecated Unix / Linux derivatives

      This is my concern, all the embedded devices happily running in underground systems like pipes and cables. I assume there are at least a few which nobody even considered patching because they’ve “just worked” for decades!

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      • Scrollone@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Or like… PLANES! Some planes still update their firmware using floppy disks

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  • exocrinous@startrek.website ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    That’s not true, lots of people are panicking about how fast they’re getting older

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