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The Y2038 problem.

UNIX timestamps used to be a signed 32-bit integer with January 1st 1970 at 00:00:00 UTC as the start of epoch.

The maximum value of a signed 32-bit integer is 2147483647 and 2147483647 seconds after the start of Epoch is:

$ date -u -d @2147483647
Tue Jan 19 03:14:07 UTC 2038

— stderr.dk (@stderrdk) January 20, 2020
#20200121_6633 / 21 Jan 2020 / 8:19 / Software
21 Jan 2020
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