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Adrian Cox offers custom software development and consultancy through Humboldt Solutions Ltd.
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In the Year 2038

I have now seen my first ever year 2038 bug. An embedded Linux system that was installed two years ago became unable to acquire a network address by DHCP. The machine did not require an accurate clock, and nobody had initialised its battery-backed real-time clock. Once installed, it had started counting forward from 1st [...]