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by kevin_thibedeau 2307 days ago
Related is NTP which overflows in 2036 because it uses unsigned 32-bit seconds since 1900.
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onei 2307 days ago
That's technically correct, but NTPv4 has the concept of eras [1] which gets incremented when that number would normally wrap.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5905#section-6

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