I really appreciate all this slow but inevitable work to solving the 2038 problem. In the wake of Y2K when we first talked about 2038 it was a joke, "ah we'll a

I really appreciate all this slow but inevitable work to solving the 2038 problem. In the wake of Y2K when we first talked about 2038 it was a joke, "ah we'll all be retired then and anyway computers will be totally different". But here we are now, 24 years later and 14 years before the actual deadline. Thankfully folks are doing the work of fixing the deeper system limitations. I'm retired now but fully expecting to dust off a bunch of Unix skills in late 2037, early 2038. I suspect by then many people who know how to, say, build a Linux kernel from the command line will either be dead, retired, or too busy doing more fun things.