We’ve still got time to fix it, and the next release of Debian will likely have a time-64 complete userland. I don’t know the status of other “bedrock” distributions, but I expect that for all Linux (and BSD) systems that don’t have to support a proprietary time-32 program, everything will be time-64 with nearly a decade to spare.
More of a front end issue actually, almost all time is just stored as the number of seconds since 00:00:00 Jan 1 1970.
I’ve seen plenty of people use ISO 8601 for storage as well as display.
And it’s represented as a 64 bits value, which is over 500 billions years.
… About that… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
This is for a 32bits encoded epoch time, which will run out in 2038.
Epoch time on 64 bits will see the sun swallow Earth before it runs out.
That’s the 32 bit timestamp
We’ve still got time to fix it, and the next release of Debian will likely have a time-64 complete userland. I don’t know the status of other “bedrock” distributions, but I expect that for all Linux (and BSD) systems that don’t have to support a proprietary time-32 program, everything will be time-64 with nearly a decade to spare.
Yup. Gentoo people are working on it as well. This is only a problem on 32-bit Linux too, right?
I think it affects amd64 / x64 because they originally used a 32-bit time_t for compatibility with x86 to make multiarch easier.
I don’t believe it affects arm64.