The Epochalypse: It's Y2k, but 38 Years Later
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Article discusses the 'Epochalypse', a potential issue with Unix time overflowing in 2038, similar to the Y2K bug.
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alex-moon
5 months ago
One pedantic nitpick: the heat death of the universe is at least 10^100 years away, many many orders of magnitude longer than 200 billion (or 2x10^11) years. Overall though lovely stuff - I was already largely aware of all of this but it's nice to have a concise but detailed summary that's largely accurate (as far as I know).
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