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Artur:

--- Quote ---The standard Unix time_t (data type representing a point in time) is a signed integer data type, traditionally of 32 bits (but see below), directly encoding the Unix time number as described in the preceding section. Being 32 bits means that it covers a range of about 136 years in total. The minimum representable time is 1901-12-13, and the maximum representable time is 2038-01-19. At 03:14:07 UTC 2038-01-19 this representation overflows. This milestone is anticipated with a mixture of amusement and dread; see year 2038 problem.
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See Wikipedia article. it was 2038, not 2035. my bad.

--- Quote ---In some newer operating systems, time_t has been widened to 64 bits. In the negative direction, this goes back more than twenty times the age of the universe, and so suffices. In the positive direction, whether the approximately 293 billion representable years is truly sufficient depends on the ultimate fate of the universe, but it is certainly adequate for most practical purposes.
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