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

Fred Daggy Silver badge

Not sure I am a fan of packing two meanings in to a single data field. Perhaps a bool or flag for "Never expires". Then another field (which might be the aforementioned 2^32 datetime field, which indicates the expiry. Date of expiry only checked if the bool indicates it is required.

Or is my programming style way out of date?

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