Germany lays out a path to quit coal by 2038

Re:Germany lays out a path to quit coal by 2038 by expathacker on Saturday January 26, 2019 @03:57PM (#19008451)

2038? Does this have to do with Epoch time ending somehow?

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Re:Germany lays out a path to quit coal by 2038 by philwelch on Saturday January 26, 2019 @04:00PM (#19008463)

Yeah, coal-powered computers can only handle 32-bit integers ;)

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Re:Germany lays out a path to quit coal by 2038 by cozzyd on Saturday January 26, 2019 @05:08PM (#19008835)

In 2038, the coal company clocks roll back to 1901, when all was good in the world for them.

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Re:Germany lays out a path to quit coal by 2038 by kbutler on Saturday January 26, 2019 @06:18PM (#19009208)

...to 1970...

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Re:Germany lays out a path to quit coal by 2038 by jcranmer on Saturday January 26, 2019 @07:16PM (#19009477)

No, it rolls over to 1901. time_t is a signed value, and 2038 is when it rolls over from 2³¹ - 1 to -2³¹. That would be 2 billion seconds before 1970, or 1901.

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Re:Germany lays out a path to quit coal by 2038 by est31 on Saturday January 26, 2019 @06:59PM (#19009402)

... which was a very great year for lignite mining: https://www.oeko.de/fileadmin/oekodoc/BET2017-Hermann-Oeko-I...

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Re:Germany lays out a path to quit coal by 2038 by cozzyd on Saturday January 26, 2019 @09:43PM (#19010088)

If our Unix forefathers had the foresight to make time_t unsigned, then we wouldn't have to worry about this problem until after 2100.

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Re:Germany lays out a path to quit coal by 2038 by 2038AD on Sunday January 27, 2019 @05:18AM (#19011171)

I would guess, when originally suggested, it was $current_year + 2 decades.

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