One thing I’ve pondered about is the first time unix epoch reached 10 digits, 1000000000. That is 9th of September 2001, 2 days before 9/11.
If the terrorists had that in mind hoping for some malfunction in systems around the world only supporting max 9 digits?
some malfunction in systems around the world only supporting max 9 digits
That’s not how computers work, though. They use binary so they care more about binary digits (powers of two: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, etc) rather than decimal digits (powers of 10: 1, 10, 100, 1000, 10000, etc).
Very old systems store numbers with a fixed number of digits, but those systems don’t use Unix time.
But you could feasibly have conversion that crashes a system.
Say a log is generated and prefixes the entries by a padded unix timestamp. The field is padded to length 9, so after y2k1 the unsigned integer math specifies to prepend -1 = 232 - 1 spaces
I like conspiracy theories that are utter bullshit, but could conceivably be true just based on the limited information given. It makes the world more interesting.
Classic joke, but what I find interesting is that the people who say it with conviction. Tend to be the kind of people who are into knights, swords and things like that. And they’re so invested in not being wrong, that they literally don’t consider the whole “forging metal with coal” aspect.
One thing I’ve pondered about is the first time unix epoch reached 10 digits, 1000000000. That is 9th of September 2001, 2 days before 9/11. If the terrorists had that in mind hoping for some malfunction in systems around the world only supporting max 9 digits?
… probably not… but coincidences are fun
That’s not how computers work, though. They use binary so they care more about binary digits (powers of two: 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, etc) rather than decimal digits (powers of 10: 1, 10, 100, 1000, 10000, etc).
Very old systems store numbers with a fixed number of digits, but those systems don’t use Unix time.
But you could feasibly have conversion that crashes a system.
Say a log is generated and prefixes the entries by a padded unix timestamp. The field is padded to length 9, so after y2k1 the unsigned integer math specifies to prepend -1 = 232 - 1 spaces
I like conspiracy theories that are utter bullshit, but could conceivably be true just based on the limited information given. It makes the world more interesting.
It’s more believable than most conspiracies about 9/11.
This fool doesn’t know that jet fuel can’t melt steel beams. Edit: apparently I needed this /s
But chemtrail chemicals can!
for the uninitiated
Perhaps. But flying a fully laden jet liner into a building will do a number on it.
Classic joke, but what I find interesting is that the people who say it with conviction. Tend to be the kind of people who are into knights, swords and things like that. And they’re so invested in not being wrong, that they literally don’t consider the whole “forging metal with coal” aspect.