This video has a correction! Years after this was published, Civilisation creator Sid Meier made it clear that "Nuclear Gandhi" was just a myth: kotaku.com/civilization-creator-shoots-down-our-memories-of-a-nuke-1845006305 - for all corrections on this channel, see www.tomscott.com/corrections

@matmel6159

3 жыл бұрын

I am watching this 4 years after puplication and the creator has commented an hour ago. What are the ods.

@chickenbokernot2598

3 жыл бұрын

thats good to know

@chickenbokernot2598

3 жыл бұрын

judging by how this comment will blow up i have triangulated the distance between the universes edge to determine that even though i am one of the earliest replies, still, nobody will care.

@TEGames

3 жыл бұрын

:O

@zenice1911

3 жыл бұрын

yay

Don't you just hate when Gandhi gets a negative underflow and starts declaring war on everyone

@shrekonion8307

4 жыл бұрын

Ghandi: becomes less angry Also Ghandi: *visible anger*

@aBetterMove

4 жыл бұрын

You try living on spicy food and never getting a negative underflow 💩

@muhammadmubashirullah7152

4 жыл бұрын

It is a cool twist and some may call it a feature.

@sapehc

4 жыл бұрын

Happen to me E-VE-RI-TIME

@Maki-ng4jk

4 жыл бұрын

World: exists Gandhi: *_I'm abouta end this man's whole career_*

"Ghandi was a dick" - Tom Scott

@BazookaTooth707

8 жыл бұрын

"Good thing it was only in a video game" - Tom Scott

@matthewmccloy4283

8 жыл бұрын

+ReppeNThA707 'It's unlikely they'll ever confirm exactly what happened' - Tom Scott, 2k16.

@Novenae_CCG

8 жыл бұрын

+Newton'sFlamingLaserSword ''The expected lifespan of the universe'' -Tom Scott, 04/12/292277026596 15:30:02

@CatnamedMittens

8 жыл бұрын

+DragonOnSteroids Why did that score count down anyways?

@DickButtox

8 жыл бұрын

+DragonOnSteroids And he was a dick from then on.

When Gandhi gets a negative underflow: “Peace was never an option”

@ImaPizzaK

3 жыл бұрын

300th liker

@SifArtorias

3 жыл бұрын

Ghandi underflow be like: Hesitation is defeat!

@winnipeginstinct

3 жыл бұрын

jee when i get a negative underflow, i just get 128 of the item in the 6th slot of my bag

@ernestolombardo5811

3 жыл бұрын

Don't strike - riot!

@mmmm768

3 жыл бұрын

But playing Untitled Goose Game is an option

me: hey phone its currently 1970 phone: ok me: when did i call john again? phone: about 17 trillion years after the heat death of the universe me: oh

@martinrother

3 жыл бұрын

It is actually presumably a cold death. :D

@ohsnapson92

3 жыл бұрын

@@martinrother What you're thinking is what heat death means

@zypher2712

3 жыл бұрын

Oh no anyways

@rbarua3368

3 жыл бұрын

I actually set the date back on those farming games like taps to riches so I can get lots of progress. Time travel if you will.

@kittenmimi5326

3 жыл бұрын

@@martinrother if heat dies it's coldz

Plot twist: the universe was created in 1/1/1970

@sbgaming7316

4 жыл бұрын

Which means the moon landing was faked

@ELLIOT1311

4 жыл бұрын

The Beatles really was Jesus then.

@fortheloveofnoise9298

4 жыл бұрын

@@Saucy-ws6jc The button was on the moon.

@Talaxianer

4 жыл бұрын

no fun fact: 4 of the 6 manned moon landings occured after 1970-01-01

@cloutcamellife7768

4 жыл бұрын

Daisy Is Dead I’ve heard of that. Hurts my head to think deeply about though. Like saying the universe was created last Thursday and all the memories you have of any time before that never actually happened

“War is good” -Gandhi Probably

@Kqinzel

3 жыл бұрын

-Gandhi

@Itsbully06

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Joseph stalin

@Real_ObamaGaming69

3 жыл бұрын

“Stay strapped or get clapped.” -George Washington

@monkearmyleader3027

3 жыл бұрын

I met my clone!

@adamchmielewski6162

2 жыл бұрын

“War is good” -Ghandi Probably -JosePh D

The important thing to remember when doing time calculations in your code: don't do time calculations in your code, ever. Not even if forced at gunpoint. Use the provided libraries instead.

@matthewschneider6725

2 жыл бұрын

If, on the other hand, the "library" provided is JavaScript's Date object, your only possible course of action is to find a suitable corner to weep into.

@danielegvi

2 жыл бұрын

@@matthewschneider6725 i know it’s over 20 years too late, but I can’t wait for Temporal to be finally part of JS. Until then, Luxon or JodaTime it is.

@VGAppSolutions

2 жыл бұрын

Take time from a central source

@toucan6109

2 жыл бұрын

And then suffer by said gun

@royalblanket

2 жыл бұрын

@@toucan6109 I mean if it's pointed at your head I don't think there'll be that much suffering

I've known about the Gandhi bug for years and even checked it out, but it still gets me everytime that this peace-loving guy would start yeeting boom balls at people.

@jsgv7935

2 жыл бұрын

LMAOOOOO

@Guardian_023

2 жыл бұрын

Pfffffft. Is this still an issue? Like in civ 5? For example.

@genshinmidget5043

2 жыл бұрын

@@Guardian_023 No but, they made it part of the game as an actual feature, it works differently.

@HappyBeezerStudios

Жыл бұрын

Yup, they keep it in on purpose now.

We're gonna party like it's 1969.

@Nope-ik8wv

4 жыл бұрын

Gary Hudson 👢

@nati7925

4 жыл бұрын

Lana

@Error-jv1kj

4 жыл бұрын

- weird al

@user-vw5yg5ok5f

4 жыл бұрын

Nicee

@ethen1772

4 жыл бұрын

Back in the summer of 69

If I were a writer for Doctor Who, I could write an episode around this

@april-wr1mf

3 жыл бұрын

Write it anyways and present it to the creators hey maybe it might be projected into an episode you never know Crazier things have happened

@ethan5339

3 жыл бұрын

i don’t know who you are but you are so smart

@weeklydoseofwho3108

3 жыл бұрын

That would be amazing if u did that i love when theres a whovian in a regular video

@renhey9979

3 жыл бұрын

Don't give the moffer any more ideas...

@projectretro8243

3 жыл бұрын

You’re right!

3:06 It was worse. Much, much worse. The normal maximum aggressiveness in the game was 10. The underflow bug put Gandhi's aggressiveness at 255 on a scale of 1 to 10. Way, way off the scale.

@ryanandring2688

2 жыл бұрын

How is that possible?

@lukasbelan2109

2 жыл бұрын

@@ryanandring2688 Because aggresivenes of 0 in binary is 0000 0000 but if the mentioned underflow happened it changed to 1111 1111 which is 255 (2↑8 - 1 [256-1 because there are 256 values but it starts at 0 and ends with 255])

@Engieman909

2 жыл бұрын

Literally 25 and a half times his maximum angry. Literally a fireball the size of an elephant burning everything around it. Pure anger

@aliafzoon3294

2 жыл бұрын

True. But probably no function was designed for the aggression over 10(or any maximum value).

@rickyhineman4124

2 жыл бұрын

@@aliafzoon3294 ... how else would angry Gandhi be possible? The programmers would have had to have assumed that the 'anger' weight couldn't possibly go beyond the max, instead of enforcing (and ensuring) it couldn't, which is exactly how the bug arises (since a logic error causes a broken domain, the range must also break)

Fun fact: Discord references this on mobile when you join on ongoing call. The length of the call says 1/1/1970

@cscscscss

3 жыл бұрын

And if there are new messages but Discord hasn't loaded them yet, it says 2015

@cii4980

3 жыл бұрын

Mine does 12/31/1969

@thomasrodgers503

3 жыл бұрын

Mine does 1/26/1969

@Daniel-ls1gm

2 жыл бұрын

Remember seeing 1969 something in 'new messages since' bar before.

@remythispartisnotimportant7276

2 жыл бұрын

@@cii4980 mine too

I did this and my phone turned into a brick, now i'm building iPhone houses.

@lavender_heart3831

3 жыл бұрын

same

@andyjamisonmusic7572

3 жыл бұрын

same

@miniminminimin6007

3 жыл бұрын

same

@gdplayer1035

3 жыл бұрын

same

@juango500

3 жыл бұрын

those are some expensive bricks

Clickbait, nothing about bricks

@kerimca98

5 жыл бұрын

There you go 🧱

@turboslayer7417

5 жыл бұрын

r/woooosh

@kerimca98

5 жыл бұрын

@@turboslayer7417 You're the one being woooshed

@turboslayer7417

5 жыл бұрын

@@kerimca98 Talking to Etho Baryonyx, not you

@turboslayer7417

5 жыл бұрын

Although it would have also worked on you

Everybody going to ignore the attention to detail in this clip? He's sat telling us this in front of some ghastly 70's inspired wallpaper.

@wbfaulk

2 жыл бұрын

You're a little off. That wallpaper is from the '80s. The 1880s, that is. The blue one on the bottom is "Strawberry Thief" by William Morris, and there are certainly people who would take great offense at you casting it as "ghastly". (I don't immediately recognize the red/orange one on the top.)

@hijackedmemes6988

2 жыл бұрын

Why does it matter? The video is a short one, mainly about unix time anyway there’s no need for anything too dramatic and flashy.

No one: KZread for some reason: I think you are going to enjoy this after 5 ****ing years since this video is published

@Ashtynn

2 жыл бұрын

lmfao I didn’t even realise it was made 5 years ago

@freddyfazbearfromfnaf3669

2 жыл бұрын

Did u just censor yourself?

@raymartcarreon6069

2 жыл бұрын

To be fair i did enjoy it

@iI_Principe

2 жыл бұрын

why wouldnt you tho?

They caught the Nuclear Gandhi bug in playtesting but it was so funny they left it in. It literally changed the course of Civilization.

@putinstea

8 жыл бұрын

+Red Mercer Did they, or did you make that up?

@NickiRusin

8 жыл бұрын

+Red Mercer Nuclear Gandhi. I like that.

@NickiRusin

8 жыл бұрын

***** What kind of music would they play?

@ayanhart

8 жыл бұрын

+Iorveth It's been in every game since, so no. It's essentially become a running gag in the Civ series - Ghandi is super peaceful all game... until he gets nukes xD

@ObadiahtheSlim

8 жыл бұрын

+Red Mercer They even gave it a nod in Civ 5. Sure Gandhi is a peacenik, but he has a maximum nuclear weapon usage setting in his AI file. If late game Gandhi gets into a war, he will do his best to nuke you.

Don’t you just hate it when you are in December 1969 and your iPhone is in 21 trillion

@takumifujiwara7906

3 жыл бұрын

Happens too often

@doggobind

3 жыл бұрын

Top 1 ways to cheat in an iPhone 69420! iPhone hates him!

@lonewolf711_

3 жыл бұрын

“Goddamn, not again!”

Apple really doesn’t want us to have our phones on 19 funny number

@jasonvera3043

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Michael Scott!

@ananttiwari1337

3 жыл бұрын

19? or did you mean 69lmao

@ratking9577

2 жыл бұрын

@@ananttiwari1337 1969

to be honest, I hadn't ever considered interger underflow in my code. I never write anything particularly complex, but this is a nice reminder that things are not always simple. I have had to consider interger overflow before, but mostly because I accidentally wrote some code that had an overflow that would crash the software at random points in its run. spent weeks trying to figure it out before my dad of all people said "that calculation is going to return a number higher than 32 bit"

@radiod698

2 жыл бұрын

Very late but how did you're dad know that?

@sey_81

Жыл бұрын

I´m also curious

@celestialtree8602

Жыл бұрын

@@radiod698 Maybe programming background, or maybe they remembered that the 32 bit limit was like 2.1 billion something from something their son/daughter/other said and just thought "wait isn't that higher than the limit?"

Nobody: Ghandi: "Peace is the question and the atomic bomb is the answer"

@LIFE-nz3ez

4 жыл бұрын

Gandhi*

@Adrian-gu7qo

4 жыл бұрын

People can't be violent if they're already dead

@bulls205

4 жыл бұрын

Ironically that's kind of true. Mutually assured destruction is the reason why the United States and Soviet Union never went to war with each other.

@CelestialXena

4 жыл бұрын

And radiation is not the concern

@dminecraft999

4 жыл бұрын

@@Adrian-gu7qo media: vIdeO gAmEs cAuSe vIoLeNcE

Now i know why Gandhi was such a war monger lol Fascinating bug, great video!

@gameplaystutorialminecraft6230

8 жыл бұрын

hey xiissumaaa big fan bud.. im also in ure free build server

@gameplaystutorialminecraft6230

8 жыл бұрын

+CK Wunch make it cracked pls.. I joined xisum's server using a friends prem

@ckwunch8028

8 жыл бұрын

Gameplays,Tutorial,MINECRAFT FUN I am against cracked servers. If we never pay for anything no one will write cool stuff. I am sorry but i cant support cracked servers.

@RingxWorld

8 жыл бұрын

+xisumavoid xisuma whens the next hermitcraft episode

@carrotslice1763

8 жыл бұрын

+xisumavoid wow you're everywhere

Instructions Unclear, thew a brick at my Iphone

@saadmanmahfuz

3 жыл бұрын

So you threw a Nokia 3310 at your iPhone?

@b2rdistheword942

3 жыл бұрын

@@saadmanmahfuz I sure did!

@user-cr5vj3jn2r

3 жыл бұрын

​

@Morningstar_37

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-cr5vj3jn2r What

@st3am267

3 жыл бұрын

Nice gd pfp

"Gandhi started declaring war on everyone" -Tom Scott 2016.

That 64-bit time visualization at the end really shows how catastrophic this kind of stuff actually is. Awesome stuff.

@TomScottGo

8 жыл бұрын

+PotatoHandle I managed to crash After Effects while building the expressions to make those graphics work. Turns out it doesn't like 64-bit integers either...!

@TheFerdi265

8 жыл бұрын

+Tom Scott Also, wouldn't the sheer size size of the numbers possible to store in 64 bit unix time make it possible to use a signed 64 bit int and STILL store the time until the expected end of the universe? That would mean we could store all possible times from the beginning to the end without buggy overflow semantics, which is what we want, right?

@EwanMarshall

8 жыл бұрын

+TheFerdi265 Yes it would, but back in 1970 when the epoch was chosen, it was defined as a 32bit unsigned integer of number of seconds since the epoch. Infact, if we weren't moving it to 64 bits we would overflow in 2038. Also there are still overflow and underflow mechanics on signed variables, and they act even more weird due to how 2s compliment works.

@TheFerdi265

8 жыл бұрын

Yes, but with 64 bit signed we would not come even close to the overflow areas under normal usage. And IMO if we already HAVE to make a switch, then why not do it fully. Like change the EPOCH to be beginning of time in the universe and use unsigned 64 bit

@joopie99aa

8 жыл бұрын

+TheFerdi265 Setting the epoch to the beginning of time isn't really practical, because we are nowhere near knowing how old the universe is down to the second. But yes, using a 64 bit signed int with a 1970/1/1 00:00 epoch would work very well. In fact, this is the standard way of representing Unix time ;)

*Who was also here just to learn how to birck everyones iPhone but instead learned about how to get Ghandi to delcare war on everyone*

@superpancakes9512

4 жыл бұрын

Hah civilization joke i love it.

@roroo

4 жыл бұрын

birck

@somebodylikesbacon1960

4 жыл бұрын

Me.

@peanutbutter7639

4 жыл бұрын

Gandhi****

@jacobw1780

4 жыл бұрын

Stop

Interesting - I’m an Apple Technician, and we just switched to a new repair system, but we’re Kinda in a limbo in between both old and new because the new one is a big change. In the new one when we go to check somethings coverage sometimes it says “31/12/1969”. I don’t think there is any correlation but it’s interesting :) (We can still find coverage it’s just an extra step)

@jgharston

3 жыл бұрын

If you set the clock to 00:00:00 01/01/1970, but then declare your timezone to be Alaska, then yes the human display will state that it's 1969 'cos at midnight 01/01/1970 it was still 1969 in Alaska.

@arlingtonhynes

3 жыл бұрын

There’s a correlation. Can’t tell you the details without seeing their code, but I can virtually guarantee the time_t epoch is somewhere in the background of how that came to pass.

@laultimarebanada

2 жыл бұрын

Haha nice

*Why is this video from 1970 getting recommended to me in 2019* Edit: after clicking on this video 71 times to read my notifications I think I might watch the video

@bringittothetop3790

4 жыл бұрын

yow pip

@ghog4792

4 жыл бұрын

U dumb

@yuvt9104

4 жыл бұрын

*fr*

@ghog4792

4 жыл бұрын

VenomAliive oh no 🤦‍♂️. I was joking so you get wooooshed now

@user_xman00

4 жыл бұрын

Omg the video is from 2016!!!1 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣😂🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

my moms old iphone 4 swears it is january 1968 every time you turn it off

@notthespaghetti1997

4 жыл бұрын

So it says "Its f**king january 1968 you f**king pig" when you turn it on how the 60s where

@questreality8262

4 жыл бұрын

Chloe Jude 😂

@deebo1186

4 жыл бұрын

Chloe Jude 😂

@emma818

4 жыл бұрын

Chloe Jude hahahah

@potmki6601

4 жыл бұрын

"Old iPhone 4" sounds like a nonsense to me. In my mind they just recently became a thing. Am I old Basically, iPhone was invented like 10 years ago so

"And if you understand those terms, you don't need this video" Well Imma still buckle up

Imagine going into a time machine excited to meet every famous person from history just to find out that it's computer unit has this exact same bug and you end up at the location of time during the heat death of the universe.

I did it and someone threw a brick at my phone.

@jayle5404

7 жыл бұрын

No 20/10

@sparraw5603

7 жыл бұрын

Kewl

@katanaj3005

7 жыл бұрын

Oh my

@julez5602

6 жыл бұрын

SpoonOfPower 69/69

@paxmeier915

6 жыл бұрын

SpoonOfPower

I still don’t understand the awkward and uncomfortable camera scene change

@diarykeeper

4 жыл бұрын

To recatch your attention :p

@Sammyv12345

4 жыл бұрын

Alex Lane it feels as if i am a stalker who is crouched behind a corner peering up and staring at him while trying not to be noticed

@alechakimian9036

4 жыл бұрын

4:18

@magaplex6476

4 жыл бұрын

I read this as it happened

@lilfr4nkie

4 жыл бұрын

Sammyv12345 I think that’s exactly what Tom was going for.

Going back to this video ~5 years later, I get to smile to myself that I understood the words at the beginning of the video. It isn’t much, but it’s definitely a reminder that I’ve made progress in understanding something I’m as passionate as I am about. Thanks for that. :)

I would definitely have you as my teacher you explain everything so clearly

Plot Twist: We're in the matrix and it was created in 1/1/1970

@lavender_heart3831

3 жыл бұрын

People born in 12/31/1969:

@dew62169

3 жыл бұрын

I guess my dad never existed who woulda knew

@InfamousMax

3 жыл бұрын

@@lavender_heart3831 Well, they and everyone else just need to belive that they are born before that date, which is not very hard to manage in the matrix. There was a film including that topic: "Open Your Eyes", might worth watching it.

@vibovitold

3 жыл бұрын

@Vikarn RAJORA [11M2] how could they know if their pre-1970 memories were really accumulated over the years rather than just a ready-made preset?

@vulpine6692

2 жыл бұрын

It was created a day after, so it cant register before

"well this would be called an 'integer underflow'" Me: he's gonna talk about the Ghandi thing

@zakiaw4963

4 жыл бұрын

Ya what is that Ghandi thing?everyone is commenting about it and I'm here like a videogame npc

@prestonang8216

4 жыл бұрын

Zaki Aw NPC energy

@gingergamergirl98

4 жыл бұрын

Zaki Aw Watch from 2:51 for the Gandhi bit

@devilsyndicatexo

3 жыл бұрын

Ummm little respect it’s Gandhi

@anotherwordly

2 жыл бұрын

@@devilsyndicatexo what

1/1/1980 is also another common start date; When on Windows 3.1 in the year 2000, it went back to 1980 creating havoc with when I last saved my files!

I know what an 'integer underflow caused by the Unix epoch' means but I love watching Tom talk about tech

Am I only one who "doesn't need this video" yet still watches?

@RishabhDaga14

8 жыл бұрын

+Stasenko58 No.

@ratdude747

8 жыл бұрын

+Stasenko58 Guilty!

@liteyagami6364

8 жыл бұрын

+Stasenko58 Absolutely not. Shut up.

@ratdude747

8 жыл бұрын

+Stasenko58 Same here...

@Stasenko58

8 жыл бұрын

Larry Bolan Oh, sorry, I am not fluent in english and often don't get what people say

Man, this is like a horror story.

@haywiregaming332

8 жыл бұрын

ikr

@xdxd-zx5fj

8 жыл бұрын

+Haywire Gaming trud😂

@talhatariqyuluqatdis

7 жыл бұрын

I really want to click that link, but I don't trust you ;((((((((((((((((((((((((((

@carlalarkin7308

7 жыл бұрын

bruv it dose I agree

@okie9025

7 жыл бұрын

What does a bricked phone and a normal iPhone have in common? They are both useless and a waste of money

"Timezones and irritating human things like that" Timezones are truly irritating -from a person in a long distance relationship

@pederslothzuricho7685

3 жыл бұрын

even more so in Denmark, because apparantly we don't legally use utc.

@aromanticfranziskavonkarma

3 жыл бұрын

Or anyone with online friends in another timezone

@Magda_7396

2 жыл бұрын

Oh yes, I hate this 😭 Even now, it's night for me but for him it's the middle of the day :(

@yankymate2314

2 жыл бұрын

@@aromanticfranziskavonkarma ikr?

happened to me in discord when I'm glitched in a call it says 1/1/1970

@thenickstrikebetter

3 жыл бұрын

12/31/1969 when it breaks for me

@epicmehd1

3 жыл бұрын

Yes

@epicmehd1

3 жыл бұрын

@@thenickstrikebetter after a few hours ...U get 1/1/1970

@onaona.

3 жыл бұрын

Happened to me to,a few times now. And it's always January 1970...

@thenickstrikebetter

3 жыл бұрын

@@onaona. for me its always been 12/31/1969 except once where it was 1/1/1970

"If you understand those terms, then you don't need this video." My ability to speak doesn't make me intelligent.

@mooserat4771

4 жыл бұрын

And another video I encounter you in

@fork638

4 жыл бұрын

It seems weve met in the same battle field again

@o_o3408

4 жыл бұрын

bruh. how are u here too

@mitsuvolts03

3 жыл бұрын

Just Some Guy without a mind

@buddy1562

3 жыл бұрын

How the hell are you on litteraly every video i watch

Is it just me who is really tempted to set the date to 1/1/1970 now

@navarruh

7 жыл бұрын

Armin Arlert I really want to do it too😐

@immortalgamer1440

7 жыл бұрын

it will brick your iphone until. u unplug the battery inside

@TheTriforceCrusader

7 жыл бұрын

ImmortalGamer you are a horrible person Has anyone ever told you that?!

@immortalgamer1440

7 жыл бұрын

wtf?

@jackiebedoya1001

7 жыл бұрын

Me but I don't wanna risk it I just got my iPhone 7 , 3 weeks ago and I don't have apple care

The thing that always gets me about coding is how the most minute detail perpetuates towards something catastrophic. Fascinating video. Thank you!

There was an underflow glitch in the original _Sonic the Hedgehog_ on the Mega Drive. In the Final Zone, the boss took eight hits to kill, but it was possible to hit him twice on the last cycle - doing so would underflow the counter to -1... aka 255. Good luck getting another 255 hits before the time ran out!

The Doctor: Sets the Tardis to January 1, 1970 Tardis, running on Linux: End of the universe? You got it, boss

@abyssstrider2547

3 жыл бұрын

Not Linux, Unix

@mackharmon5818

3 жыл бұрын

@@abyssstrider2547 Unix, Linux, macOS, and others all use the same, "Epoch" based time calculations and clock setup.

@me-dc8pj

3 жыл бұрын

All of the 60s episodes and the 7th doctor episodes that take place in 1963: *Gone, reduced to atoms*

@BarginsGalore

3 жыл бұрын

@@me-dc8pj well considering the doctors been to 1969 like 20 times that should cause some problems

@Fact_core

3 жыл бұрын

Doctor who?

to the apple store to brick the display model!

@redwolfe3343

7 жыл бұрын

i think you would get in to trouble

@zapwak9935

7 жыл бұрын

No i think they would probably be perfectly fine with it

@nitchbigga97

7 жыл бұрын

Destruction of property.

@ApocalypselabsNet

7 жыл бұрын

Their bug, their problem.

@readman010

7 жыл бұрын

Have you seen the guys that work in the apple stores? They couldn't catch a cold, seen more intelligence in my socks after a long day at work..

"Ghandi started declaring war on everyone" is a sentence that came out of a man's mouth

I came back here a few years later and i finally understand the "interger underflow in the unix epoch" :D

When forced to give my date of birth on websites I always use 01-01-1970 :)

@antipancakes4747

4 жыл бұрын

Marcus F I use 1890

@Rainbow__cookie

4 жыл бұрын

@@antipancakes4747 impossible

@antipancakes4747

4 жыл бұрын

The amd tech bear a lot of websites go that far back

@dreadfulbadger

4 жыл бұрын

I use a completely random date every single time.

@zacc.1k395

4 жыл бұрын

unemployed same but it always fucks me over when I try to reset my password

Why would someone change their date to 1970? They think they're going to time travel or what?

@Zed-Corps

7 жыл бұрын

changing the phone date back is a way to cheat in time based games

@emirates4607

7 жыл бұрын

Maybe 2-3 days not 46 years

@davo9407

7 жыл бұрын

+zedrick jaramillo or to download rom games

@user-vo7kf7sv4z

7 жыл бұрын

+Emiratess cheated a little bit too much maybe :P

@freejdg

7 жыл бұрын

Luis Antonio Domínguez Ávila why not

Although I already knew what UNIX Epoch was, I kept watching the video anyway because you do such a good job explaining it.

Don't usually watch this type of video but this lad is well easy to watch, short and sweet, with quick clear info 👍

Instructions unclear.. Now my iPhone is backed with nuclear weapons..

@edwin7788

4 жыл бұрын

i like when u just need switch U and N from unclear to nuclear

@stiky5972

4 жыл бұрын

*Kim Jong Un wants to know your location*

@ClipHub777

4 жыл бұрын

"our words are backed by nuclear weapons" -Ghandi 1945

@aeghohloechu5022

4 жыл бұрын

@@ClipHub777 1969*

@elliottthompson2745

4 жыл бұрын

iPhone packed with bricks

One slight correction; The Civ 1 bug. The AI was coded using several traits each on a scale of 1 to 10, in the case their aggression, as an 8bit integer. Ghandi starts the game with a value of 1, represented as simply 00000001 in 8bit. However later when the tech diplomacy becomes availible, this tech is interesting as it drops all the AI's aggresion by 2, resulting in Ghandi having an aggresion of 11111111, or 255 out of the maximum of 10. Ghandi doesn't go from the lowest to the max value. He goes from the lowest value to over 25 times the max value.

@dogzday

8 жыл бұрын

+Kerbal Rocketry what are you correcting? what you said and what he said make perfect sense. the highest possible is 11111111 base 2. the programmers put a check to cap it at 10 base 10 (or 00001010 base 2), but they didn't put a check to prevent it from underflowing for ghandi. what you said and what he said are true, looks like you're just adding on.

@hikari_no_yume

8 жыл бұрын

+Kerbal Rocketry Er, yes, but Tom is talking about the maximum value of an [8-bit] integer.

@Nighthunter006

8 жыл бұрын

+Kerbal Rocketry I think the tech was democracy, not diplomacy.

@gorgolyt

8 жыл бұрын

+Kerbal Rocketry You corrected nothing.

@marco1824

8 жыл бұрын

+Ryan Denziloe "You corrected nothing, Jon Snow!"

And here I am now, 7 years later and about to finish my Computer Science Major, with Tom Scott being the one who originally taught me what an Integer underflow is when I was still in school.

Liked specifically for that intro about the Linux time. *Chef's kiss* loved the delivery

I wonder how many people here who knew the terms listed in the reason _actually_ left instead of watching the video.

@T0MMYNAT0R

5 жыл бұрын

I think it was interesting to watch. It's always cool to hear people explain certain things.

@corryunedited8154

5 жыл бұрын

Probably fewer than 00000111. (Just a guess.)

@VoltSnake

5 жыл бұрын

@@corryunedited8154 7 people, I mean that's very precise

@realcartoongirl

4 жыл бұрын

@@corryunedited8154 1 2 4

"using 4 binary digits, you cant count higher than 15" okay, im following you... "with 64 binary digits, you get a number 20 times the length of the universe." ...

@Maki-ng4jk

4 жыл бұрын

Per digit, the total multiplies by 2. 2 raised to the power of 4 equals 16, or 0-15 (computers count from zero). 2 raised to the power of 64 = that absurd number.

@SetyaPriatna

4 жыл бұрын

do not underestimate the power of "to the power of".

@xEulxgyx

4 жыл бұрын

Ok what

@fresch4395

4 жыл бұрын

@@SetyaPriatna 2 to the power of 2 is 2^2 or 2² So 64 bit can display a number 64²

@grosdoorne

4 жыл бұрын

@@fresch4395 2^64, not 64²

This guy could probably explain rocket science to me in an understanding way

I remember in school, setting the time and date about half an hour before the maximum date time, then wait for the computer to crash when one of your mates was using it 😂 only when it wasn't super important stuff that needed saving though, just a bit of fun 😀

@FewVidsJustComments

2 жыл бұрын

What is the maximum you can set it to?

if apple ever confirmed the bug they would explain it in vague hipster terms and call it something catchy like iFuckedup

@mynamebestname

6 жыл бұрын

undocumented behavior also has a nice ring to it...

@dodderss

6 жыл бұрын

Ha

@jadethom7908

5 жыл бұрын

It's for you; It's ICE!

@hadierturk7999

5 жыл бұрын

:D That’s hilarious

@christopherg2347

5 жыл бұрын

Or maybe a OoopSi?

this person: setting your date to this will render your phone inoperable. it will break your phone and make it stop working. me, a person who uses my phone a lot and wouldn’t be able to afford a replacement/repair, before even clicking on the video: i wanna try it

@putinsthirdtoe8800

4 жыл бұрын

Me

@under5947

4 жыл бұрын

btw it doesn't work anymore.

@Network126

4 жыл бұрын

Go to an Apple store and try it on one of their display units..

@inirotimi

4 жыл бұрын

Network126 you’re the saviour we need but dont deserve.

@TheShattenjager

4 жыл бұрын

Network126 didn’t you mean to say “try it on all of their display units?” FTFY

That wallpaper has bricked my eyes

So like did everybody just get this recommended

@bkillerj8404

3 жыл бұрын

Yea

@nicholas8523

3 жыл бұрын

Such an original comment

@loveless2558

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe

That's an epoch fail!

@BazookaTooth707

8 жыл бұрын

Win of the day

@bardes18

8 жыл бұрын

+piranha031091 Relevant xkcd: xkcd.com/376/

@ryanm7263

8 жыл бұрын

+piranha031091 You just won the internet.

@InOtherNews1

8 жыл бұрын

+Paulo Bardes There's an XKCD for everything....

@stationshelter

8 жыл бұрын

+InOtherNews1 If there is an XKCD for everything, and more XKCDs are continuing to be created, are more things being caused to exist because of XKCD?

Google tells me that one of my devices has been registered on 31. dec 1969... Does it mean I got a phone from the past or the future?

@synthaly4663

4 жыл бұрын

waffeltek r/wooosh

@shane9239

4 жыл бұрын

@waffeltek r/wooosh

@Aqib2

4 жыл бұрын

HappyBeezerStudios - by Lord_Mogul You probably brought your phone from a time traveller.

@BayOfWulf

4 жыл бұрын

You got a Jesus phone. It was made on 1969 and that’s godly

@750tiprogamer

4 жыл бұрын

Whenever my phone gets out of range for phone signal, it gets really, really confused. Like saying the notifications are 42years old, the date is years ago, and stuff.

The fact youtube didn't set the date this video was uploaded to 1/1/1970 makes me sad

Your videos never cease to entertain me.

That number check is probably the indicator "Last time backed up xxx hours/days ago" under iCloud.

@MrLuc420

7 жыл бұрын

That actually seems like a pretty good theory.

@Mernom

6 жыл бұрын

But that would imply it could crash if the date was set close to the zero time, not exactly at it no?

@qwest500

6 жыл бұрын

good point

@davidgovoni6370

5 жыл бұрын

I believe Tom did mention that in the video, that if it's close to zero and not exactly, the check can still wrap.

I feel like I accidentally walked into the extended mathematics degree class mid-lecture and somehow got mentally lost and now I cant remember what I was gonna do

@tobsterminty1427

7 жыл бұрын

Hahahaaahah. Ikr😂

@spartyon75playsmaddenmobil12

7 жыл бұрын

me to

@EmdrGreg

7 жыл бұрын

...but ironcally you CAN remember December 31, 1969. Magic.

@Loggus66

7 жыл бұрын

Applefags, everybody.

@gamesniff5958

7 жыл бұрын

I feel like I walked to the 90s

I understood the terms but kept watching because your style is so engaging

0:13 me *understands* also me : " i still very much need"

@the21podcast

3 жыл бұрын

Not relatable

So now we're in the year 46 U.E. (Unix Era)?

@theLuigiFan0007Productions

8 жыл бұрын

カラス Correct! :D

@iabervon

8 жыл бұрын

+カラス Actually we're in the fourteen hundreds, 1455 to be particular. It's been 1455 megaseconds since the epoch. Years are really messy.

@theLuigiFan0007Productions

8 жыл бұрын

iabervon I usually don't go by seconds for real life timekeeping.... but for software purposes I will not argue about it's superiority.

@mugoloo

8 жыл бұрын

+iabervon I don't know which one I like better dammit.

@ckwunch8028

8 жыл бұрын

+カラス Set a linux machine to 1/1/1970 and you get a similar problem, except linux is smart, when it gets the error it tries to kill all processes and find the right time/date. Try it yourself set the bios clock to 30/12/1969:0.50 (gives your box 10 mins to boot) will it crash... No it will tell you the time and date are wrong and give you a double beep :D (server admins will know what i mean about the double beep code)

I did understand those words, but watched the video anyway.

@JustinKoenigSilica

8 жыл бұрын

+Huntracony give up now. this wasn't even this difficult to understand, even as someone like me, who doesn't know jack about programming

@MrTellitToYa

8 жыл бұрын

+Justin Koenig He very obviously already watched the video.

@JustinKoenigSilica

8 жыл бұрын

MrTellitToYa "give up now", as in, don't watch anymore if you already don't understand

@doomslaps4583

8 жыл бұрын

+Huntracony You rebel...

@Huntracony

8 жыл бұрын

Justin Koenig But, I do understand. Did you read my comment wrong?

This explains why, if you're a broadband tech support agent in the UK, and there's a major service outage... A lot of the time Openreach will say the service outage has been going since the 1/1/1970. It must struggle to find the real start date and just give the earliest possible date it can.

4 years on and I still keep trying to scrape that little black dot on the wall behind you off my screen...

Comments under this video: 1% Stuff that actually makes sense. 9% Stuff loosely relating somehow to 01/01/1970 90% Ghandi declaring war

@queefedworm

4 жыл бұрын

What I found weird is how I found no one who encountered my problem, I once bricked my iphone because I was date changing to get gold on a mobile app with a client side clock and I somehow unbricked it by updating the ios

@jaykrishnak3268

3 жыл бұрын

Gandhi*

@petermarsella6537

3 жыл бұрын

The comments below and above this were specifically about Gandhi declaring war

@yuyukosfaithfulservant

3 жыл бұрын

ikr

@47FLA

3 жыл бұрын

And also stuff about bricks

You could make a video on why doors open and I'd still watch it

Some of the pictures in my phone have the date set to 1/1/70 for some reason. I think the metadata was corrupted in some way.

"And ghandi started to declare war on everyone" had me laughing so hard

they fixed it cause you can only go back to december 31st, 2000 now

@KM-vy6ic

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, they changed it a while boi

@cyberwirehacking5143

7 жыл бұрын

+kyle te L

@simonro9168

7 жыл бұрын

I wonder what happens on Macs (UNIX-based 64bit machines) or on 32-bit iPhones

@ApocalypselabsNet

7 жыл бұрын

IIRC, 32-bit devices default to 1970 when the battery dies, so nothing. At least my 2nd gen iPod Touch did.

@pr9101

6 жыл бұрын

so thats what was happening to my mums ipod. I remember finding it on that quite often.

Steam: (some game) last played 01.01.1970 me: oh ok

@HiJack3r

4 жыл бұрын

Wait a second i remember that before the update with the huge UI overhaul in the Library section games i hadnt played had a last played date that was absurdly old, but i dont remember if it was exactly 1.1.1970., is this why?

@TheMoonRover

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, the date probably wasn't assigned properly for some reason and the value defaulted to 0, which would show 1/1/1970.

@doggobind

3 жыл бұрын

*_played 569259274917417401758202749175927508205149259275027525927961497580275916 years ago_*

It’s been 4 years. This still ticks me off as of today

"It is almost certainly an integer underflow caused by the Unix epoch. And if you understand those terms, you don't need this video" - Actually, I do understand those terms, but your videos are still worth watching when I already know :)

I did this once completely by accident on my ipad. Absolutely panicked and ran around screeching to the nearest poor saps that were my friends.

"Gandhi was a dick" - British person

@bigturnip

8 жыл бұрын

"Gandhi was worse than a dick" - Anybody who knows history

@chrisrichards942

8 жыл бұрын

"I'm too drunk to taste this chicken"- Colonel Sanders

@toplel8211

8 жыл бұрын

+Saint Val It's a reference to the Civilization series bro. Back in the original game, as explained, he was supposed to be a pacifist but as time went by he turned into a monster because of a coding bug. Homage is paid to the bug in the modern civ games by making Gandhi more likely to use nukes than any other civ.

@prittyandpink32

8 жыл бұрын

"Nah" - Rosa Parks

@Micavich

8 жыл бұрын

"Shhh" -Ann Frank

I’m sure someone lost their iPhone because they wanted the date to say 1969.

I knew the words, but i still needed the video... What i learned was: Fail-safe your system from accidentally causing underflows, by simply making sure to always have a querry and an exception throw catch handler which will do a stack trace and log it in a dump. Very usefull.

Very late but, for those wondering: Why 1970? Because the people who designed UNIX chose it. There's no special reason. Why "bricked"? Because if you set the clock to 1970-1-1 and restart the phone, it won't start up anymore, making it about as useful as a brick. (I'm sure it's been fixed by now though.) Why no negative numbers? Because in a computer you only have '0' and '1'. You don't have '-'. You can tell your program to interpret one of those digits as meaning positive or negative instead of being part of the actual number, but they didn't bother to do that here. Why does this prevent the phone from starting up? No idea. Some code doesn't handle this situation correctly and does something wrong.

@DanielR1

4 жыл бұрын

Why 1970? Because Unix was developed around that date and why waste precious bits if you don't have all that many. They were simply trying to track file creation dates and stuff like that. Years before Unix became usable didn't need to be represented for said purpose.

@pyrodynamic4144

4 жыл бұрын

Not because "they didn't bother." Making an integer (or a number in general) signed means you need to allocate a bit to storing the sign. One bit doesn't sound like much, but remember we're dealing with powers of two here. The maximum value that can be represented by a unsigned integer is twice as large as that of the signed integer. In such a scenario, you don't need negative numbers, and so half of the values would go completely wasted.

@Cockalicious

Жыл бұрын

@@pyrodynamic4144 well why not just block people from setting the date that far back

@zacharyalvernaz7916

Жыл бұрын

"No special reason" isn't entirely correct. What most people don't realize is that the Y2K bug was fixed 30 years before the year 2000. Why is that significant? Because most mortgages are 30 years. And banking software was having issues looking 30 years into to future when the 2 digit year format wrapped back around to 1900. So using 1/1/1970 at 0:00 as the start time both allowed 30 year mortgages to be calculated, and gave developers enough time to solve the eventual overflow error that will occur a couple decades from now as a result of using a signed 32-bit integer (on 32 bit systems).

@eduardoxenofonte4004

Жыл бұрын

@@pyrodynamic4144 very very VERY late, but it IS because they didn't bother. yes, they would lose half of the values that the 64-bit integer could assume, but half of 292 billion years is 146 billion years, which is already more than the expected lifespan of the universe.

Why do they even let us set the date back?

@user-vo7kf7sv4z

7 жыл бұрын

for if we timetravel

@key_of_destiny4712

7 жыл бұрын

Your not supposed to, but people do it to abuse time-based games like Adventure Capitalist using an airplane mode glitch method to gain resources.

@tizoro3

7 жыл бұрын

This doesn't work on adventure capitalist... It's a cloud based game so time is based of the cloud. Not your phone.

@key_of_destiny4712

7 жыл бұрын

tizoro3 I used to do it, so I know it worked at one point. My phone didn't brick, but I just deleted the game cause it was just stupid.

@powerplayer75

7 жыл бұрын

In case you want to manually set a date if for some reason your device never connects to the Internet ever or you're just weird.

This was happening in the mini iPad we got in 2011. I haven’t used it regularly in a long time, but when I turn it on, most times the date says December 31, 1969. Then it sometimes switched to the actual date. I haven’t checked it in a while, and I know it would also display the 1/1/1970 date too

Definitely a new sub here. I love this

just checked: an iphone 7 running iOS version 10.0.1 won't even go as far back as 2003. Update: it actually skipped back to 2001 Jan, 1st. then my internet cut off a few minutes later. my google chrome browser claimed the certificate for the server was not authentic and was 5735 days in the future. after i switch the time back everything resumed to normal.

"20 times longer than the expected lifespan of the universe" oof

@thatkindcoder7510

2 жыл бұрын

Queen Elizabeth: "Pathetic"

@MauriceGuibot

2 жыл бұрын

@@thatkindcoder7510 xD

@saschahahn8994

2 жыл бұрын

Its actually not. Life eypecrancy is 10^33 but the yeaf in the vid is 2^39

@prezentoappr1171

Жыл бұрын

@@saschahahn8994 melody sheep enters the chat

The Epoch shares it's start date with the day that wallpaper behind you was put up 🤣

Interesting....but it was actually your wallpaper which crashed my phone.....🤣🤣