Reply to post: UTC?

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

Captain Boing

UTC?

unixtime, epochtime whatever you want to call it is not necessarily UTC - it's a representation of the system clock in seconds so it will go on whatever the system clock is set to.

It can be UTC but I bet most such affected systems in Oz will stumble before those in Europe - because of the time difference. saying that it all goes belly up at xx:xx:xx UTC means the clocks in Oz must have some ephemeral immunity for that half day... probably more effort than the fix

jus' sayin'

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