> I can confirm that typing a hotmail address into that form did
> indeed log you into hotmail under that user's password ...
>
> I think 2038 is a reference to the rollover date in Unix, sort of
> like y2k.
>
> Here in California, that's Mon Jan 18 19:14:07 PST 2038
>
> /jordan
>
Yeah, it is when the number of seconds since 1-jan-1970 as counted in a 32 bit integer rolls over. It actually shouldn't be timezone dependent as Unix kernels keep time in UTC and only convert to local time at the application level.
-j
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