A forum test for the 2038 problem

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What is the 2038 problem you ask?
Long story short: Anything that uses 32-bit Unix time that attempts to store something with an integer greater than 2,147,483,647, which is 03:14:07 on Tuesday, 19 January 2038 will be counted as a negative number, and be shown as 20:45:52 on Friday, 13 December 1901!

With a little bit of magic (aka DATABASE EDITING FTW!), I did a test on my forum to see whether a topic and post would properly show the date and time with a value greater than 2147483647, in which I used 2647483999, and the date read November 22nd, 2053, 22:13! The test passed!

For those interested in seeing a topic from the future can click this link here (Post is gone): Time test post - Nintendo 3DS Central

And an image to those who missed it:
Post time test.png
 
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