The end of time. Synchronize your death watches guys.

We have 70 hours to live, for most men nothing at all

We are *not* most men.

We are mercenaries

We have the resources and the will to make those hour matter! (Hope I got it right)

The clock is ticking gentlemen, let’s begin.

First we have is scout, he's.. drawn a picture of me getting hit by a car, I have something radiating off of me.

Yeah, those are stink lines!

We, are *man-children*

To think we were afraid of Y2K and 2012 when the real date of the Armageddon was in Nintendo’s hands the whole time

In unrelated news, Silksong's real release date was announced, it's january 1st 2036

It’s simple. When we reach 2036, set the clock to 2008. It has the same calendar so you just have to ignore the year.

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Never mind, the bot messaged me. I understand now.

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I want to see you keep the app till 2035 lol

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Could this be fixed with custom firmware?

most probably yes

It's less about firmware and more over how 32 bit systems/apps work. Unix time is normaly stored in milsecends since the epoch (December 31 1970 i think) and the max dec 31 2035 is the highest the value can go on and 32 bit intgur. You wolud bacly need to make everything 64 bit or change how the time is stored

Actually, this is some slight Nintendo weirdness. It *should* be able to go up until the beginning of 2038. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem Edit: [It could theoretically go to 2050?](https://gbatemp.net/threads/why-the-wii-calendar-ends-at-2035.539312/post-8708646) I saw no sources or any real explanation though. Edit again: [Found details](https://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/319303/are-the-gamecube-wii-and-wii-u-vulnerable-to-the-year-2038-problem). Turns out it can theoretically go to 2136, but Nintendo limited it to 2050 for some reason. Basically, it uses the Unix timestamp, but as an unsigned int, allowing for another 98 years.

It's less about firmware and more over how 32 bit systems/apps work. Unix time is normaly stored in milsecends since the epoch (December 31 1970 i think) and the max dec 31 2035 is the highest the value can go on and 32 bit intgur. You wolud bacly need to make everything 64 bit or change how the time is stored

Did Nintendo just confirm the date of the end of the world?

Wii are going to die

What shall Wii ever do?

WII U WII U WII U

so that means the wii will officially die on January 1st 2036.

I'm not sure if the Wii checks for expiry, but the root certificate used for all software signing expires Jan 15, 2036. I'm guessing bad things will happen at that point. DRM really should be illegal

What wil happen in animal crossing .__.

Groundhog day

Ok campers, rise and shine! — and don't forget your booties 'cause it's cooooooold out there today!

*judgement day*

*Majora's Mask bell*

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The Mayans were wrong but Nintendo is always right.

What happens tomorrow? Does the date just stay the same?

I've just tested this by set date to 12/31/2035 and clock to 23:59. At the time I wrote this comment the clock is 0:10 but the date is still 12/31/2035.

You've invented time travel. I call this an absolute win.

most likely it rolls over to the minimum date.

Can we just wait and see instead of guessing?

you asked.

you can set it yourself and just test it lol we dont need to wait 14 years

Maybe that one dude can just post tomorrow? So that we don't find out bad news in the future.

My guess is that it probably rolls back to January 1st 1970, as its the Unix epoch

IDK about the Wii, but the GameCube just keeps going once it hits its max time; you just can't set it beyond it manually

*people on Jan 1st 2036.* PANIKKK!!!!

I wonder if this has anything to do with the date Unix’s time register rolls over in 2038. Some people joke that this will be the day the singularity happens. It will likely be more like y2k, not much.

It seems more like a limitation with NTP, which will roll over in early 2036.

Pretty sure it is

I think the wii is trying to tell us something is bad is going to happen

its like when we did t know what clocks and other digital date things would do 2000 and it was basicly doomesday i wasnt born then but i know somebody made a video about it

In case you didn't know. Nothing happened. World didn't end.

oh really

Unfortunately. Yeah.

Didn't end, but it was a very expensive cost for all the tech solutions that they had to implement.

Most already stared working on solutions way before and most fixes where software side and easy to do

In all, preparation for Y2K cost the U.S. upwards of $100 billion, the Washington Post reported in November 1999, though many have since credited Y2K with creating new jobs and highlighting the importance of information technology employees.

Wouldn't exactly call that amount of money cheap, per my point.

Its free do to and prop wondent take that mutch laber or long abouts of time. They wolud already be getting payed anyway at those times

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This is false. Maybe do some light reading. Have a lovely day!

do you have any sources or something i can read? i will say i am not 100% sure but do you have any source i can read?

https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupid?key=ha011334864 Congresses' breakdown of spending and bug fixes and bugs that were missed, archived by Perdue University but the PDF is available from several .edu sites. https://www.forbes.com/sites/frederickallen/2020/12/29/apocalypse-then-when-y2k-didnt-lead-to-the-end-of-civilization/?sh=10095214475c Examples of employees that were on the project for years/months and outlines the business and government stance on creating roles to rectify this. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2000_problem# Lists out other bugs/fixes, how much extra time and money was spent replacing hardware and upgrading software. The money spent in future proofing the tech and the money spent on upping tech budgets were not tacked on to finances that were already going towards existing programmer salaries, and most of the job positions were created to improve tech security due to fear of the bug. This ended up changing the landscape for tech as a whole afterwards, and put more emphasis on making tech sustainable, as well as keeping your tech current and supported. Whether or not the argument of 'did they keep us from a disaster ' with the Y2K proofing is more nuanced, but was it a very expensive and time consuming set of projects? That is financially undeniable.

Thank you I will give them a read

What happens when it naturally goes a day past that time? I am scared to find out.

This could actually be a problem for modded Wii consoles with RiiConnect24… as I believe that channels like the Forecast channel and News Channel (and many channels more) require the date to be correct to actually work. So if this date comes and the system can’t properly update the time past that… then these channels could cease to function forever.

It'll probably keep counting until February 7, 2036. After that, either it just stops counting or it wraps around to the earliest date possible.

The clock changes but it just stays December 31 2035

The time flows backward starting 2035…

Oh no…. Anyway

This is in the manual.

Imagine this was the date that service for wii ended

Service already ended months ago lol

The date of death of the cpu!!RIP

Rip Wii november 19th 2006 - januari 1st 2036

boy i hope that won't screw anything up...

Dec 31 2050 is the latest date you can set on AC New Leaf. It’s kinda interesting to think about whether I’ll still be playing by those games or using those consoles by that point

The last day in the consoles and games calendars always scare me Why don't you put inside the game the same system as computers and phones And if it needs internet to work, now EVERYTHING can connect to internet And if it needs a lot of memory, well se thing as internet, now EVERYTHING can have lots or, well, the right number of memory to mak such things work

The prophercy....

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I’m gonna mod it so I can change to go even bigger then

Is that even possible to modify the operating system to read dates past 2035? I’m not sure if a mod like that even exists yet… but I could be wrong.

Imagine someone patching this on homebrew

Can’t wait to see this again in 14 years

Hope that’s an automatic thing.

me im 15 years: welp, im 28, and i can no longer play the Wii. Time to go home.

Supposing the planet survives to 2035, guess Nintendo knew all along when Armageddon was gonna come.

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Y2K35

We are closer to 2035 than we are to 2006. Yeesh.

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What do they know???

I heard that all Wiis will transform into WiiUs at the start of 2036

AND THIS ISN'T MY FINAL FORM!

Wii2k

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My goal is to have my wii last that long

**CAN'T WE FIX THIS** come on, we have to!

they know something we don't 😔😰

Prepare for the Wiipocalypse !

What happens after. Will it refuse to boot up

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No its not, max of Unix time is January 19 2038

Nintendo planned the Wii to be obsolete all along huh

Not exactly. NTP starts counting in 1900 for math reasons, and on a 32-bit time counter you only get 136 years or so, so anything that relies on NTP for time will also end up stopping in 2036. Mac OS stops in 2040, but it's because they start counting in 1904. Nintendo probably just capped it at 2035 so that you could pick any date from January 1 to December 31.

The more you know

That meansthe world is going to end on the dawn of 2036

...So what happens after that?

…we’re more than halfway there. Where has the time gone?

Don't remember precisely the explanation, but it has something to do with the Wii having something that's 32-bit. This is also the case with sum old photos, but a pc with a 64 bit CPU can go up to....well, a real high date

Mac OS had a similar problem. While you're correct, the particular date has more to do with what their epoch is; a 32-bit time counter has 136 years of range and if they start at January 1900 for math reasons, that means the number can't get any higher in 2036, and they probably just capped it off at 2035 so that you can pick any date on the calendar as opposed to it stopping you in February. It wasn't Nintendo's decision to start counting at 1900 though, but the designers of the Network Time Protocol, which helps synchronize computers to make sure that two computers communicating can agree on who came first. Why they started counting in 1900 as opposed to some time in the 1930s or 1940s when digital computers started appearing... I don't really know. Of course, there's no reason they couldn't have picked a closer year, the Mac OS started counting from 1904 for example, and Android starts counting from 1970.

That is the day the Wii will explode, did you not read the manuals?

I definitely don't see anything scary about that

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WAIT SO THAT MEANS THE WII WILL DIE?!?!

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What happens after that

What if you haven’t LetterBombed your Wii by then?

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time is ticking

gentlemen, synchronise your death watches

*current date and time is 31/12/35, 20:00* "Majora's mask final hours starts playing*

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What happens the day after it

Only 12 more years.