I know this isn’t any kind of surprise, and yet, well…

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      Yeah that’s a different shitshow but agreed it is likely to be worse - like y2k the effects are smeared out before and after the date.

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        32bit systems will stop working. The Unix timestamp, which increases by 1 every second and started the first second of 1970, will reach the max of 32 bit integers. Bad things will follow.

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          This has already been patched on all 64 bit OSes though - whatever 32 bit systems are still in existence in another 15 years will just roll their dates back 50 years and add another layer of duct tape to their jerry-rigged existence