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Epoch-alypse now: BBC iPlayer flaunts 2038 cutoff date, gives infrastructure game away

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My guess further down the thread is that they were setting an unsigned int to -1. On 32-bit that would set it to 2038.

And because (unint32's -1 != unint64's -1), it wouldn't show the "never expires" text.

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