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For those who like to think ahead

Linux developers think ahead, I mean waaaay ahead.

Gotta hand it to Linux developers, they think ahead.

At 15:30:08 UTC on Sun, 4 December 292,277,026,596 ….

64-bit based Unix time stamps will overflow as the time stamp will exceed the register space; save your alarm, however, as this is much longer than the time it would take the Sun to expand into a red giant and swallow the Earth.

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