1 billion and still ticking:

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[quoted lines by Andor Demarteau on August 22, 2001, at 17:56]

>2,147,483,648 on Tue Jan 19 04:14:07 2038
>This last one as specially is inportant cause 1 second later the 2^31
>digtes unix-time uses (a standart 32-bit integer) will be full.
>On that time/date we need to store time on a 64-bit integer to tacle this
>problem, but somehow I expect that will be done well ahead of time.

Way off topic, but:

If the clock is handled as a 32-bit unsigned integer, time can go way beyond
that. This, of course, would break code which treats negative clock values as
representing dates prior to 1970.

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