• Chris@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Haven’t we solved this? Most things use 64 bit dates, let our billionth generation deal with it.
    Such a boomer mentality

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      The problem is, even if it were solved for 99% of systems, 1% of systems crashing is still a massive problem.

      But yeah, I also don’t believe that it is solved for 99% of systems. There’s a ton of embedded systems all over the place, which are easy to forget about.

    • BlazeDaley@lemmy.world
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      For a limited definition of “solved”, sure. I recommend looking at the article for the dates that commonly used systems have solved the problem. Most are very recent, and changes like this take a very long time to adopt.