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When does the Y2K38 bug happen to the HP Prime?
02-25-2019, 02:21 AM (This post was last modified: 02-25-2019 02:53 AM by TheLastMillennial.)
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When does the Y2K38 bug happen to the HP Prime?
I recently forced the Y2K38 bug to happen to my original iPad and my iPad 3, it was quite an experience. Since (to the best of my knowledge) the Prime has a 32 bit CPU I was expecting it to be effected by the Y2K38 bug, but it wasn't... In fact I was able to go all the way to 2099 before HP wouldn't let me manually input the year (I had to use the calendar view). If I went any farther than 2099 with the manual year input, it would roll back to some other year. I was wondering, why doesn't the Prime get effected by the Y2K38 bug and when is its Y2K38 bug?
EDIT: I tried this on the emulator, and I was able to go all the way to the year 9999. When it rolled over to 10,000 well... I'll let this GIF explain it.
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Now my question again: why does this happen on the emulator but wont happen on the physical calculator?

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When does the Y2K38 bug happen to the HP Prime? - TheLastMillennial - 02-25-2019 02:21 AM



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