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Year 2038 Unix Time Overflow

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Heard of the year 2038 unix clock overflow bug? The 30th preversary is at 3am this Saturday. If any of your banks are using 32-bit Unix systems to do 30 year home loan calculation you may soon hear about this.

singe@platform:~$ uname -a
Linux platform 2.6.15-27-server #1 SMP Fri Dec 8 18:43:54 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux
singe@platform:~$ sudo date -u 011903142038.06
Tue Jan 19 03:14:00 UTC 2038
singe@platform:~$ date
Tue Jan 19 05:14:07 SAST 2038
singe@platform:~$ date
Fri Dec 13 22:15:52 SAST 1901

Posted by Dominic White

Last modified on 2008-01-17 12:38

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