The Twitter app just went very, very strange (www.independent.co.uk)

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Twitter has broken after seemingly being hit by an unusual bug.

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[-] dhork@lemmy.world 74 points 1 year ago

The unusual date is seemingly a consequence of the so-called Unix epoch.

[-] grue@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

Did Y2038 come early?

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 7 points 1 year ago

I've already had to deal with Y2038 bugs about 15 years ago. Cookies in PHP couldn't (and I think still can't) be set with an expiration date beyond the end of Unix time.

[-] squaresinger@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

They are using 31-bit signed integers.

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