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		pjc50 on Nov 21, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Investigating why Steam started picking a random f... Y2038 is also a data format issue (32-bit dates). I think it's likely to be better handled, but at the same time people keep citing the non-disaster of Y2K as a reason not to do disaster preparation, so I don't know.

rbanffy on Nov 21, 2022 [–]

True, but it's not like a birth date - this one goes very deep into the core of the operating system.

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