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Re:RFC 2550 – Y10K and Beyond (1999) by perlgeek on Sunday March 15, 2015 @11:11AM (#9206718)
One doesn't have to go that far. Mortgages, life insurance, annuity assurance and the like can run for more than the mere 23 years that are between now and 2038.

Heck, I won't even be retired in 2038 if things continue to work as they do now.

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Re:RFC 2550 – Y10K and Beyond (1999) by _jomo on Sunday March 15, 2015 @01:09PM (#9207178)
Apparently it already caused trouble with AOLServer in 2006 [0] because there was a database connection timeout of 1 billion seconds which hit the 32bit limit.

[0]: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg09...

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