BREAKING FINDING!! January 19, 2038....the date that time resets for all computers | |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 8309474 04/13/2015 11:57 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | the date that time resets for 32-bit computers. Quoting: Digital mix guy At the very base level of data is the integer. This is the maximum numerical value that can be stored and manipulated (directly) within a given system architecture. The X-80’s single byte came at a time of rapid computer evolution and, almost simultaneously, the first 32-bit (four byte) processors were entering the market. This size remains standard today. Even new 64 bit processors are designed with 32 bit backward compatibility in mind. As I write this and as you read it, there is a very important clock ticking. This clock is itself a computer data type, known as time_t. This value changes every second and it’s been counting upward since January 1, 1970. It allows UNIX-based systems to be able to easily compute current times and dates, which is pretty handy, just based on a built-in counter. time_t is implemented all over computing, but it has a problem. Yes, time_t is a 32 bit signed integer. What that means is eventually (3:14:07 UTC on Tuesday, January 19, 2038, to be exact), more than 2147483647 seconds will have elapsed. Time itself will overflow and there’s no solution to the problem. Changing time_t, resetting it, will mean a whole lot of code will no longer be compatible with new code and this violates one of the most basic tenets of computing (and what’s gotten us to where we are), which is backwards compatibility. Nuclear missiles probably won’t start launching themselves, but it will be a mess and one quite a bit deeper than anything to do with Y2K. Tick tock. [link to motherboard.vice.com] I see pi in the numbers what does that mean |
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