Are people seriously hoarding toilet paper? I thoght t was a joke until I got a tet asking if I had

I thought it was odd that the store was completely out of nuts...Almonds, Cashews, Peanuts...And Soup

OverTheTop said:

Yes, but the Y10K bug is coming...

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The epoch issue will be much worse. 2038, Unix time ends. 90% of all systems will have to be re-written to either use a new epoch or change the size of time from 32bit to something larger. No simple task at all.

how unix time end?

NICS has seen a 300% increase in activity. First-time purchasers now facing the restrictions they thought would never apply to them. Medical/recreational pot users being turned away. Waiting periods, permits, no private sales, etc.

During the LA riots, people were turning up at Charlton Heston's place hoping to obtain a gun and ammo from him and avoid the CA waiting period. He told them that since they voted in the gun restrictions, then they should live with the consequences.

r66astro said:

how unix time end?

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Unix time is the number if seconds since Jan 1 1970. Based on a 32bit number. In 2038, the 32bit number is maxed out. Every Unix and Linux based system will have to be re-written to use either a different time system or a bigger number (64bit) but that just covers the OS. All the apps on those systems will need to be re-written too. All time/date calculations done in 90% of the world's servers are based in Unix epoch time.

When Apple converted to OSX (BSD based) it also converted it's time system so it runs out of time in 32000-something

Haven't most Linux/Unix OS's already been rewritten to use a 64 bit time reference?

Linux uses a 64-bit integer. Most Unix systems have already moved to 64-bit.

The problem lies in embedded systems written before it was considered an issue.