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   Re: 'Leap Second' to Be Added on New Yea   
   31 Dec 16 15:59:00   
   
   From: Keith Thompson    
   Subject: Re: 'Leap Second' to Be Added on New Year's Eve This Year   
       
   Mark Lloyd  writes:   
   > On 12/30/2016 07:48 PM, Keith Thompson wrote:   
   >> Mark Lloyd  writes:   
   [...]   
   >>> Used to be 32-bit, why I thought Y2K was going to be much less of a   
   >>> problem than Y2.038K (Jan 17 2038 IIRC).   
   >> [...]   
   >>   
   >> Tue 2038-01-19 03:14:08 UTC   
   >   
   > I knew it was around that time, from having to deal with that when my    
   > website was on a 32-bit server. IIRC the negative limit is in December 1901.   
       
   Fri 1901-12-13 20:45:52 UTC   
       
   If you have the GNU coreutils date command, you can do:   
       
   $ date -u +'%a %Y-%m-%d %T %Z' -d @-2147483648   
   Fri 1901-12-13 20:45:52 UTC   
   $ date -u +'%a %Y-%m-%d %T %Z' -d @2147483647   
   Tue 2038-01-19 03:14:07 UTC   
   $    
       
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