Friday, January 03, 2014

Fun facts!

I read this today, and it made me laugh like a mad man. Luckily I was the only one in the office (the rest are still on Christmas holidays):

  • At 15:30:08 UTC on Sun, 4 December 292,277,026,596[17][18] 64-bit versions of the Unix time stamp will cease to work, as it will overflow the largest value that can be held in a signed 64-bit number. This is not anticipated to pose a problem, as this is considerably longer than the time it would take the Sun to theoretically expand to a red giant and swallow the Earth.