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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EKGuest" data-source="post: 28482360" data-attributes="member: 582168">The concept is simple - this bug occurs due to a concept called integer overflow in programming. For example in C# in a variable of sbyte data type (which is a signed 8-bit integer) the maximum value that can be stored is 127. If you add 1 to it instead of storing 128 it will store -128. This bug occurs in systems that uses 32 bits to represent time as a whole number(a signed 32-bit integer) - the number of seconds elapsed since 1970-01-01 00:00:00. The maximum value a 32 bit integer can represent is 2147483647, and if you add 1 to it instead of storing 2147483648 it will store -2147483648.2147483647 represents 2038-01-19 03:14:07 UTC. If you add 1 to it instead of representing 2038-01-19 03:14:08 UTC it will represent 1901-12-13 20:45:52 UTC.If some system used 8-bit signed integers to store time, this bug would occur 2 minutes and 8 seconds after 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC, as the maximum time an 8-bit signed integer can represent is 1970-01-01 00:02:07 UTC</blockquote>

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