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kevin_thibedeau on Nov 19, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Investigating why Steam started picking a random f...

NTP epoch in 2036 is going to be better since it isn't getting any attention and there's going to be no shortage of broken IoT devices that fail.

mkl on Nov 20, 2022 [–]

For the curious: https://doc.ntp.org/reflib/y2k/. 2^32 seconds since 1900-01-01 00:00 ends on 7 Feb 2036. The 2038 problem is 2^31 seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00, the Unix epoch.

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