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Debian isn't waiting for 2038 to blow up, switches to 64-bit time for everything

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Debian isn't waiting for 2038 to blow up, switches to 64-bit time for everything

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Y2K38 bug? Debian switching to 64-bit time for everything

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: We say everything... just not the oldest hardware. Unix Epochalypse less than 13 years away

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They’ll switch to a 128 bit integer, completely breaking backwards compatibility.

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