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ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 3 months agoIn this case, it’s the overflow as 01111111…11111111+1
in binary becomes 10000000…00000000
.
But yes, some programs erroneously fall back to 0
in case of a null
value, which corresponds to 1970-01-01. That’s why so many geotags exist for Null Island.
Matty_r@programming.dev 3 months ago
For those wanting to know why, its called Two’s complement