Re: Not just Linux
Actually that's a slightly different date overflow problem. Dates in DVB are represented as a 16 bit modified Julian Date and a 6 digit BCD encoded time within the day.
A modified Julian Date is the last 5 digits of the full Julian date. The current full Julian date is 2457074
so the modified Julian date is 57074. 16 bits mean that 65535 is the last modified Julian date that can be represented in the DVB format, which is 22nd April 2038
Almost the same date and definitely a problem, but a very different derivation
--Richard
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