• psud@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    Do you have any 32 bit computers anymore? Any running important stuff that needs good dates?

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      10 days ago

      Lots of embedded systems and infrastructure. But yeah, nothing important like your porn watching device.

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        10 days ago

        And as long as they get updated, it’ll be fine. Probably cheaper than Y2K. Note that medical and industrial control stuff generally doesn’t care about the date

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      10 days ago

      It’s not about having accurate dates, it’s about how unix time is used in programming. For some systems that reference unix time for essential calculations, that value rolling over and overflowing would cause catastrophic problems