Why will Unix time reset to zero in they year 17,014,118,346,046,923,173,168...

I read that Unix time will reset to zero in the year 17,014,118,346,046,923,173,168,730,371,5...


Why is that?

Why will Unix time reset to zero in they year 17,014,118,346,046,923,173,168...
The counter which counts time will overflow. It is only defined to be a certain number of bits long -- probably 64.
Reply:Is that for real???? No kidding??????????? Now I'm worried.





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Reply:That is a very big number, 1.7 x 10^22. By that time, dark energy will have blown all away to awful empty flatness! The stars long gone, no matter, no energy, nothing remains.





But the real case is:


"At seven seconds past 03:14 AM on January 19, 2038 the counters on every Unix computer in the world will be full and will roll over to "0." Many computers assume the time as January 1, 1970. Because many computers store the number of seconds as a 32-bit signed integer, the Unix epoch is often said to last 231 seconds, thus ending at 03:14:07 AM January 19, 2038."
Reply:If that is true, it is probably due to the number of bits assigned to the year field of the system time.

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