Yeah, it's kinda like that. Fun fact: the maximum date you can represent with a 32-bit number is 19 January 2038 (at 03:14:07 UTC). So we're going to have a mini y2k where some software will need to be rewritten in order to keep tracking time. Luckily 64-bit is widely adapted so most computers will be able to keep up for millennia.
Interesting. Thanks. So it’s a programmers/cpu’s version of bc/ad kind of?
Yeah, it's kinda like that. Fun fact: the maximum date you can represent with a 32-bit number is 19 January 2038 (at 03:14:07 UTC). So we're going to have a mini y2k where some software will need to be rewritten in order to keep tracking time. Luckily 64-bit is widely adapted so most computers will be able to keep up for millennia.