Tracking Years
- The year 2000 problem spawned fears of worldwide economic collapse and an industry of consultants providing last-minute fixes.
- It is possible a similar problem could occur in 2038 (the year 2038 problem), as many Unix systems calculate the time in seconds since 1 January 1970, and store this number as a 32-bit signed integer, for which the maximum possible value is 231 − 1 (2,147,483,647) seconds.
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