The sad part is people are going to look at the lack of a year 2000 event and assume 2038 is going to be a "dud", when they fail to see all the damn work that w

The sad part is people are going to look at the lack of a year 2000 event and assume 2038 is going to be a "dud", when they fail to see all the damn work that went into making sure Y2K was a dud including a significant portion of IT hours and probably a lot of extra support laid in. I expect 2038 to be a rare hell because of the nature of the devices. Y2K was an IT problem, but 2038 will be an embedded system problem and that's going to be a much more painful thing to audit. Moving from the server room to inside equipment and walls is going to be fun.