Gregory's Server@tychotithonus @robertatcara All I remember is that at that time I would have been 12 years old. I remember we had a computer that ran Windows 95 and, out of curiosity, maybe a year ahead of time, I set its clock forward and let it tick over just to see what would happen, and it was all fine.
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@tychotithonus @robertatcara It makes me wonder if we'll be equally panicked about the Unix epoch, or if fixes will roll out to all the Linux and BSD systems well ahead of time. Indeed. And given how long IoT-ish devices can survive in the field, well beyond their "advertised" service/support life, but still operating normally ... the Unix-likes have been trying to root it out for a while, to get in front of that loooong runway. @gerowen @tychotithonus @robertatcara@infosec.exchange The entire existence of 64-bit Unix systems arguably constitutes rolling out fixes ahead of time. I know a number of Linux distributions have already been working out how to deal with the 32-bit Arm problem for a while, since that's the most likely one to stick around in embedded systems. People in the field are definitely thinking ahead to 2038 at this point. |
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I respect the empirical curiosity! I have no recollection of whether Windows 95 required any fixes, and how far in advance they were deployed if so - now I'm curious!
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