During restoration work on old systems, the British National Museum of Computing discovered an unexpected problem that could ...

Museum boffins find code that crashes in 2037 A stark warning about the upcoming Epochalypse, also known as the "Year 2038 problem," has come from the past, as National Museum Of Computing system ...

The Unix epoch is midnight on January 1, 1970. It's important to remember that this isn't Unix's "birthday" -- rough versions of the operating system were around in the 1960s.

Any respectable Unix clock will tell you that Friday will mark 1,234,567,890 seconds past January 1, 1970. Why not celebrate? Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about ...