Critical and Significant Dates
From Y2K to the overflow of 32-bit seconds from Unix epoch, a list of special date to watch for depending on the system.
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Falsehood › Dates and Time: “From Y2K to the overflow of 32-bit seconds from Unix epoch, a list of special date to watch for depending on the system.”