> I wonder if the engineers at the time thought that programmers in the future will run into such issues. Given that Unix was developed at Bell labs in the lat

> I wonder if the engineers at the time thought that programmers in the future will run into such issues. Given that Unix was developed at Bell labs in the late 60's I'd say the thought of Unix being a thing in 2038 never would have occurred to them. Even in the 80's they petered out with Unix research stopping at v10 and developed plan 9, which still has a 2038 bug we need to work out.