[mkj]

Are they doing anything to fix it or just raising awareness?

Here's an example of measuring packages that report warnings for software that has suspicious conversions. Compile with `-Wconversion` with both 32-bit and 64-bit time_t, and see what the difference is. https://github.com/mkj/yocto-y2038

That is using yocto, but you could probably do something similar with other less-embedded distros too, if you can rebuild the world.

FWIW I didn't find much interesting with that apart from busybox dhcpd.

[rvba]

It looks mostly like a project for self promotion of the two authors. Maybe they offer some consulting services.

Funniest is that one of them wrote that they have "learned about it after Y2K bug". I thought one learns about this overflow in a "introduction to programming" class...

[Sardtok]

It also says nothing about a formal education, just that he has worked in IT since his teens. I didn't hear of the 2038 problem myself until the whole Y2K debacle, but then, I was in my teens at the time.

[zokier]

btw yocto has been using 64 bit time_t since last year: https://docs.yoctoproject.org/dev/migration-guides/migration...