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by SAI_Peregrinus
292 days ago
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It got fixed in the kernel & musl in 2020. It got fixed in glibc in 2021. Everything built against the currently-supported versions of those things will have 64-bit `time_t` since the headers are updated. It mostly only matters for proprietary programs distributed only as binaries that don't get updates, for systems that no longer get updates at all, and for people running computer history museum exhibits. Some distros take a long time to update, but even the longest don't have 17-year support cycles. I'm sure it'll cause someone some issues, but it'll be very niche by 2038. Most of the sorts of systems that it could cause problems for aren't being used to plan things years in advance, some probably don't even do anything with the date. So it's a niche within a niche (unupdatable systems used for future planning) that's likely to have problems soon, and overall probably no longer a big deal. TL;DR: It's solved upstream, only an issue for some systems that don't get updates. |
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