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submitted 2 years ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to c/science_memes@mander.xyz

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[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 15 points 2 years ago (4 children)

2038 is approaching super fast and nobody seems to care yet

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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 48 points 2 years ago (3 children)

At the rate of one year per year, even.

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[–] CybranM@feddit.nu 21 points 2 years ago (1 child)

For each second that passes we're one second closer to 2038

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[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 4 points 2 years ago

Except for leap seconds. Time is the worst to work with :(

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[–] lowleveldata@programming.dev 7 points 2 years ago

omg

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[+] trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago

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[–] Successful_Try543@feddit.de 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

AfaIk that's not entirely true, e.g. Debian is changing the system time from 32 bit integer to 64 bit. Thus I assume other distros do this as well. However, this does not help for industrial or IOT devices running deprecated Unix / Linux derivatives.

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[+] smeg@feddit.uk 19 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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[–] Scrollone@feddit.it 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Or like... PLANES! Some planes still update their firmware using floppy disks

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[+] smeg@feddit.uk 11 points 2 years ago

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[–] exocrinous@startrek.website 8 points 2 years ago

That's not true, lots of people are panicking about how fast they're getting older

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[–] theneverfox@pawb.social 3 points 2 years ago

Well that's justifiable. We're not sure if we're even going to make it to then

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