Comment Re:I read TFA... (Score 1) 125
A conjecture about this would be that 2038 is the ending of UNIX time. The maximum numer of seconds a signed integer can hold is 2 ** 31 - 1. So all as far as all Linux boxen are concerned the world ends on:
> perl -le 'print scalar localtime 2 ** 31 -1;'
Mon Jan 18 21:14:07 2038
Monday January the 18th, 2038. This is probably why they always are set to expire in 2038. Don't know about 2016.
And this explanation could be bull anyway.
> perl -le 'print scalar localtime 2 ** 31 -1;'
Mon Jan 18 21:14:07 2038
Monday January the 18th, 2038. This is probably why they always are set to expire in 2038. Don't know about 2016.
And this explanation could be bull anyway.
