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    21 days ago

    Do you have any 32 bit computers anymore? Any running important stuff that needs good dates?

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      21 days ago

      It’s not about having accurate dates, it’s about how unix time is used in programming. For some systems that reference unix time for essential calculations, that value rolling over and overflowing would cause catastrophic problems