Le 22/07/2012 08:34, Stephen nous fit lire :
> On 21/07/2012 11:56 PM, Darren New wrote:
>> On 7/21/2012 13:46, Stephen wrote:
>>> The next one will be 2049 and my life support will start playing up. ;-)
>>
>> 2038, I expect. Then 2059.
>>
> You will have to explain that. :-(
> 

2038 is the year the 32th bit of the integer counting the number of
second since the Epoch (1 Jan 1970 00:00 UTC) will change to 1.
Implied issue: time stored as 32 bits integer would get negative (as
opposed to unsigned integer). Comparing date code ( is A before B <=> A
< B ) would fails.

It will not happen the 1 Jan 2038 at 0:00 ... but on the 19 Jan 2039,
3:14:08 UTC.

No clue about 2059.

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