Tackling Y2K38

[balanga]

I doubt whether it will effect me but it may give some of you something to think about.

Open-Source Community Tackling Y2K38 Epoch

Just 12 years remain before a fundamental limit in timekeeping threatens to disrupt unprepared computer systems; Y2K38 is the new Y2K, and open-source contri...

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Is the FreeBSD community thinking about this topic?

 

[atax1a]

per our freebsd-13.2 box's /usr/include/sys/vdso.h the only freebsd platform that has a 32-bit time_t is the i386 platform. it seems like the thinking about this problem has already been done as of the i386 deprecation.

 

[AlfredoLlaquet]

"Tackling Y2K38" could be a Martian outpost.

 

[DerTeufel]

What about applications that use the 32 bit time seconds counter for timestamps?
Are they also updated as part of the i386 deprecation or kept and might fail?