Epoch fail!!!

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• ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Inaccurate. Signed 32-bit integer epoch overflows from January 2038 to December 1901.

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  • saigot@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If the calendar was written in C++ or many of it’s derivatives then signed integer overflow is undefined behaviour and it could technically choose to do anything it damn well wants (unsigned integers actually do have defined overflow behaviour). Something tells me the runtime of a paper calendar is anything but standard :D

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  • Zoomboingding@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s not the overflow that’s the issue, but a calculation failure that causes the date value to be “0” and thus list the date as January 1, 1970. It’s happened to me several times with Pokemon GO.

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    • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Fuck the specs. If Pokemon GO says it, that’s good enough for me.

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    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      In this case, it’s the overflow as 01111111…11111111+1 in binary becomes 10000000…00000000.

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      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.

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  • observantTrapezium@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Haha, that’s right. Immediate noticed that.

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• Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Are we still calling it Y2k38? I think it needs some rebranding or we won’t be able recruit devs to put in the overtime to fix it so history can decide it was all fake.

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  • NegativeInf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I tend to favor The Epochalypse.

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    • TexasDrunk@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Well you won. I’m headed in to work tomorrow to get started on marketing it to the C suite using this.

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    • blackluster117@possumpat.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Damn, that is catchy.

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  • jaybone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I’ll just wait for Crowdstrike to deploy a fix.

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