Museum boffins find code that crashes in 2037 A stark warning about the upcoming Epochalypse, also known as the "Year 2038 problem," has come from the past, as National Museum Of Computing system ...

Unix time, also known as “epoch time” is, of course, the number of seconds that have passed since Jan 1, 1970. It’s hard to think in Unix time.

During restoration work on old systems, the British National Museum of Computing discovered an unexpected problem that could ...

Unix time after the 32-bit signed integer has overflowed. For an unpatched system using a signed 32-bit integer to track Unix time, the immediate consequences could be severe.

I have several times appreciated the fact that Java (and by extension, Groovy) base time against the same epoch as Unix. Java and Unix both use midnight, January 1, 1970 UTC / GMT as their epoch time.

A tech issue called the Year 2038 problem may disrupt digital systems. Many systems use a 32-bit format that will reach its limit in 2038. This could cause errors in important infrastructure like ...