[ubuntu-uk] February 13th timestamp

Tony Arnold tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk
Fri Feb 13 10:54:43 GMT 2009



James Thomas wrote:
> /Quote from www.2038bug.com <http://www.2038bug.com> :-/
> /
> /
> /February 2009: We will soon be approaching Feb 13 2009 23:31:30 GMT.
> This is the date when the Unix time is 1234567890 seconds. Are there
> virus authors that have used this date for activation? Let's wait and see./
> /
> 
> Oh joy....

Since most viruses run on Windows, I would think the Unix time is
irrelevant!

Regards,
Tony.
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