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

Dan 55 Silver badge

The available until date is set to 18th of January 2038. So someone, for whatever reason, deliberately set it to one day earlier than 0x7FFFFFFF, either at 00:00:00, 03:14:07, or 23:59:59 (pick your poison).

Maybe the new guy wasn't aware of the value to get it to say "for more than a year", which might be -1.

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