The 2038 Bug Has Already Started — and Your 64-bit Server May Not Save You

In 2006, servers began behaving strangely. Scheduled tasks stopped running, database connections froze and processes became unresponsive. There was no cyberattack, no hardware failure and no obvious explanation. The culprit was something far more mundane: a calculation involving time. AOLserver, the open-source web server once developed by AOL, had a workaround for a situation that … Read more