pdurrant wrote the following as part of a post:
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Originally Posted by pdurrant
The next inauspicious date is the unix roll-over in 2038. (Unix stores the time as number of seconds since midnight on 1st January 1970. Stored in a signed 32-bit number, that rolls over in the early hours of 19 January 2038.
That's only 22 years away!
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I've heard that the original Macintosh computers had a related issue and will run into a Y2K-type situation in 2048.