Linux 5.1 Continues The Years-Long Effort Preparing For Year 2038 (phoronix.com)

Linux 5.1 continues the massive undertaking in preparing the kernel for the Year 2038 problem. Phoronix: The Linux kernel has been seeing "Y2038" work for years and the effort is far from over. Thomas Gleixner (a Linux kernel developer who serves as a member of the technical advisory board at The Linux Foundation) sent in the latest Y2038 work for the Linux 5.1 kernel, which after a lot of ground work in previous kernels has introduced the first set of syscalls that are Year 2038 safe.

Comments

Re:it seems early but it's not

[ceoyoyo]

Y10K bug.

Re:it's too late

[Kjella]

Ya know, I think you can survive with the timestamp on your CCTV feed having the wrong year.

I will, but won't somebody please think of the NSA?