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by devjab 537 days ago
If we’re changing unix time we should probably do something about the year 2038 problem. It’ll not be nearly as fun as new years in 2000.
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homebrewer 537 days ago
Debian developers, glibc developers and many others have been working on this for the past few years. It's more or less solved for most free software applications.

https://lwn.net/Articles/938149/

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6SixTy 537 days ago
Doesn't also count plenty of legacy servers out there that are on the MBA style of IT: Don't fix what's not broken and deny, delay, defend but for the IT department.

DOS, Win9x, and NT broadly speaking should be relatively fine though depending on how Y2K was fixed.

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stackskipton 537 days ago
That’s been solved. Most modern implementations of Unix Time are 64 bit.
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