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submitted 1 week ago by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to c/linux@programming.dev

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[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (6 children)

'...(potentially setting time back to 1900)...'

From my understanding, unless I'm mistaken, wouldn't the 32 bit time reset back to 1970 after the overflow/rollover?

[–] fargeol@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Timestamps that use signed int will go back to 1901 (-2,147,483,647)

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Oh shit, I missed that part, I always thought it was an unsigned int.. 🤦‍♂️

Well today I learned 👍

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