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Most open source software packages are also compiled for BSD variants, they switched to 64 bit time_t a long time ago and reported back upstream any problems.

• throw0101c 1y ago
  > Most open source software packages are also compiled for BSD variants, they switched to 64 bit time_t a long time ago and reported back upstream any problems. * NetBSD in 2012: https://www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-6/NetBSD-6.0.html https://www.netbsd.org/releases/formal-6/NetBSD-6.0.html * OpenBSD in 2014: http://www.openbsd.org/55.html http://www.openbsd.org/55.html For packaging, NetBSD uses their (multi-platform) Pkgsrc, which has 29,000 packages, which probably covers a large swath of open source stuff: * https://pkgsrc.org https://pkgsrc.org On FreeBSD, the last platform to move to 64-bit time_t was powerpc in 2017: * https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-all/2017-June/147671.html https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-all/2017-June/14... but amd64 was in 2012: * https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/commit/8f77be2b4ce5e3a3408218495d572d3681d9f5c3 https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/commit/8f77be2b4ce5e3... with only i386 remaining: * https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=arch https://man.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=arch * https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/main/share/man/man7/arch.7 https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd-src/blob/main/share/man/m...