• pelya@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Maybe on my 32-bit ARM server with ancient kernel it will. Any 64-bit machine is immune.

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      2 months ago

      …unless it’s running software that uses signed 32-bit timestamps, or stores data using that format.

      The point about the “millennium bug” was that it was a category of problems that required (hundreds of) thousands of fixes. It didn’t matter if your OS was immune, because the OS isn’t where the value is.