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submitted 11 months ago by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago (3 children)

'...(potentially setting time back to 1900)...'

From my understanding, unless I'm mistaken, wouldn't the 32 bit time reset back to 1970 after the overflow/rollover?

[–] fargeol@lemmy.world 24 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Timestamps that use signed int will go back to 1901 (-2,147,483,647)

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

Oh shit, I missed that part, I always thought it was an unsigned int.. 🤦‍♂️

Well today I learned 👍

[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

you're wrong, but so was the article, so I guess that cancels out :D it's late 1901

[–] eah@programming.dev 17 points 11 months ago (1 children)

There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

That's just a really solid joke.