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Today, I came across my first ever instance of the #year2038 problem in a real non-manufactured scenario.

It was running the `date` command on a Raspberry Pi, for anyone who might care.

This was to get the expiry date of a CA certificate that is expiring 15yrs from now.

Today, I came across my first ever instance of the #year2038 problem in a real non-manufactured scenario.

It was running the `date` command on a Raspberry Pi, for anyone who might care.

This was to get the expiry date of a CA certificate that is expiring 25yrs from now.

@onthisday … and soon, software written with a 32-bit signed `time_t` will overflow in 2038, which isn't that far off into the future. #year2038

Investigating why Steam started picking a random font: http://blog.pkh.me/p/35-investigating-why-steam-started-picking-a-random-font.html #linux #linuxgaming #steam #font #year2038