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		IvyMike on May 4, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The dangers of resetting everything at once For those who aren't catching the "May 1 + 248 days" reference: http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/05/01/boe...

zatkin on May 4, 2015 [–]

What is she referring to when she says 208 days in the parenthesized paragraph? (After the 2nd paragraph.)

robotmlg on May 4, 2015 | | [–]

The 208 day bug: https://www.novell.com/support/kb/doc.php?id=7009834

The 49.7 day bug: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/216641

_lce0 on May 4, 2015 | | | [–]

Interesting to read.

Apparently it's caused by uptime being stored in a 32-bit integer which simply overflows at that point in time

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/anthonyv/...

ipozgaj on May 4, 2015 | | [–]

TSC overflow bug, see https://access.redhat.com/solutions/68466

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