Security certificate issues

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Originally Posted by Shawnee123

It wasn't until I had a problem with another type of game that said something cryptic that made me look at my clock and I saw the year was set to 8002. I don't know how or why,

More interesting, the clock has no way to store 8002. Data time clocks measure by counting seconds from a fixed date - typically a day in 1981. No date time clock has the ability to count seconds up to 8002.

BTW, that knowledge also says why the millennium fears were total nonsense in 2000. Why would a count that changes from 596937607 to 596937608 cause a computer crash? Because too many _new_ without first learning the facts. Fear due to technical ignorance was a primary reason for panic and predictions.

Curious because a date time clock cannot store the number of seconds for the year 8002. Implies a problem elsewhere - ie somebody wrote software with a defect - that used signed rather than unsigned integers. IOW the defect date also identified another problem with that computer.