Monday, March 7, 2011

Unix Millenium Bug

Showing how the date would reset (at 03:14:08 UTC on 19 January 2038).
Unix Millennium Bug (also know as the  year 2038 problem, Y2K38 or S2G). This problem will cause disorders in all systems and software that stores system time as a signed 32-bit integer. The date will reset itself 00:00:00 UTC 1 January 1970 on reaching 03:14:08 UTC 19 January 2038, this error will occur due to Integer overflow. Since the increments in signed 32-bit binary will increment the signed bit resulting in reporting a maximally negative number.

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