2038 is approaching super fast and nobody seems to care yet
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FractalsInfinite@sh.itjust.works 7 months agoThe question is, what will happen in 2038 when y2k happens again due to an integer overflow? People are already sounding the alarm but who knows if people will fix all of the systems before it hits.
Scrollone@feddit.it 7 months ago
Aceticon@lemmy.world 7 months ago
At the rate of one year per year, even.
CybranM@feddit.nu 7 months ago
For each second that passes we’re one second closer to 2038
jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 7 months ago
Except for leap seconds. Time is the worst to work with :(
lowleveldata@programming.dev 7 months ago
omg
trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 7 months ago
That’s 30.4 days per month!!!
Successful_Try543@feddit.de 7 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.
smeg@feddit.uk 7 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!
Scrollone@feddit.it 7 months ago
Or like… PLANES! Some planes still update their firmware using floppy disks
exocrinous@startrek.website 7 months ago
That’s not true, lots of people are panicking about how fast they’re getting older
zik@lemmy.world 7 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.
lowleveldata@programming.dev 7 months ago
Finally it’d be the year of desktop linux with all the windows users die off
Towerofpain11@lemmy.world 7 months ago
This is the funniest comment I have ever read here. Thank you.
Matombo@feddit.de 7 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
dev_null@lemmy.ml 7 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.
CLOTHESPlN@lemmy.world 7 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.
cqthca@reddthat.com 7 months ago
As a future boltzmann brain, I agree.