Thursday, October 13, 2011

year 2038 problem

Unix time, the amount of seconds from January 1, 00:00:00 1970 cannot get past 2038 as a 32bit integer.

Its current at  1318449967, one billion, three hundred and eighteen million, four hundred and forty nine thousands, nine hundred sixty seven seconds since 1970.

Unix based computers, Andriod, Apple OSx,  iphone, etc use this number to keep time. Any application relying on this time should crash after year 2038. Y2k right? This is more serious.

I will be 59 years old in 2038, 27 years from now.

Ive never met anyone 59 years old named Brad.

Just got my wisdom teeth out, man fudge this stuff, its a dull pain for a week and I've only had advil. Stupid Unix Epoch couldn't come any earlier.