From TFA: > This is now less that 15 years away and plenty of system that will have problems have already been shipped. We should stop adding to the problem. M

From TFA: > This is now less that 15 years away and plenty of system that will have problems have already been shipped. We should stop adding to the problem. Most computing, especially computing using Debian or its derivatives, is now done on 64-bit hardware where this issue does not arise. The goal is to support 64 bit time on 32 bit systems. > We are doomed. We really aren't. Y2K was a big nothingburger despite the media scaremongering. 64 bit systems are already nearly everywhere. As TFA states: most distros don't even bother supporting 32 bit hardware anymore. They simply don't. Are there going to be tiny Internet-of-shitty-insecure-Things devices out there failing in 2038? Very likely. Nuclear powerplants failing, nuclear warheads launched by mistake and lab doors wrongly opened (from labs where they do GoF research on deadly viruses)? Nope. Not gonna happen.