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The world ends on January 19, 2038: thanks Unix!

If you thought the Y2K bug had a lot of world ending potential, you might want to skip this post right now. If we don't blow ourselves up by 2038, the end of the world is going to have little to do with nukes and a lot to do with Unix because Unix systems can't keep track of the date past January 19, 2038. According to Y2K38.info, Unix keeps track of the date and time using a four byte integer ...