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grill asked in Science & MathematicsPhysics · 2 months ago

could the y38 problem cause nuclear power plants to malfunction?

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    2 months ago

    They'll probably simply update to a 64-bit value to simplify all other programming.

  • 2 months ago

    I doubt it. The 2038 (in some cases 2036) problem is being worked on, and I suspect that by the time we get close to the problem date, all the software glitches will be fixed.

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