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Ayesh
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The Unix timestamp will begin with 17 this Tuesday
... which happens roughly every three years.
jefftk
on Nov 11, 2023
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Or roughly every 136 years.
asplake
on Nov 10, 2023
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How so?
dooglius
on Nov 10, 2023
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See for yourself
> date -d '@1600000000'
> date -d '@1700000000'
stop50
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1 year are 31557600 seconds so roughly a third of 100 million seconds 1.7 billion seconds since the epoch is the next big rollover since 2020 and the 5th-last before 31 bits are not enough to hold the seconds since the epoch.
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