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Imagine, it is the 19th of January 2038 and as you get up, you find that your mariadb does not start, your python2 programs stop compiling, memcached is misbehaving, your backups have strange timestamps and rsync behaves weird.
And all of this, because at some point, UNIX devs declared the time_t type to be a signed 32-bit integer counting seconds from 1970-01-01 so that 0x7fffffff or 2147483647 is the highest value that can be represented. And that gives us
date -u -Iseconds -d@2147483647 2038-01-19T03:14:07+00:00 But despair not, as I have been working on reproducible builds for openSUSE, I have been building our packages a few years into the future to see the impact it has and recently changed tests from +15 to +16 years to look into these issues of year 2038. At least the ones that pop up in our x86_64 build-time tests.
I hope, 32-bit systems will be phased out by then, because these will have their own additional problems.
Many fixes have already been submitted and others will surely follow, so that hopefully 2038-01-19 can be just as uneventful as 2000-01-01 was.
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