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There are a lot of people, even in this very thread, who will say "don't break backward compatibility!" right up until 03:14:07 UTC on 19 January 2038. At SOME
by phendrenad2 5y ago
There are a lot of people, even in this very thread, who will say "don't break backward compatibility!" right up until 03:14:07 UTC on 19 January 2038. At SOME point we'll have to let saner people prevail, and actually break backward compatibility. I'm just hoping it happens, you know, sooner rather than later.
- jrimbault 5y agoI'm exactly of this opinion, it's better for us (programmers/admins/etc) to deal with some level of breakage now (gigantic as it may be), than for actual users to deal with breakage with their future dates.
- paledot 5y agoBingo. We have the option of recompiling with an older version of glibc while we work out the bugs. Our users won't have the option of running our code in 2037 when the epoch arrives.