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Mark Lloyd <not@mail.invalid> writes:
> On 12/30/2016 07:48 PM, Keith Thompson wrote:
>> Mark Lloyd <not@mail.invalid> writes:
[...]
>>> Used to be 32-bit, why I thought Y2K was going to be much less of a
>>> problem than Y2.038K (Jan 17 2038 IIRC).
>> [...]
>>
>> Tue 2038-01-19 03:14:08 UTC
>
> I knew it was around that time, from having to deal with that when my 
> website was on a 32-bit server. IIRC the negative limit is in December 1901.

Fri 1901-12-13 20:45:52 UTC

If you have the GNU coreutils date command, you can do:

$ date -u +'%a %Y-%m-%d %T %Z' -d @-2147483648
Fri 1901-12-13 20:45:52 UTC
$ date -u +'%a %Y-%m-%d %T %Z' -d @2147483647
Tue 2038-01-19 03:14:07 UTC
$ 

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc.
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