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2038 is approaching super fast and nobody seems to care yet

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Well that’s justifiable. We’re not sure if we’re even going to make it to then

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At the rate of one year per year, even.

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For each second that passes we’re one second closer to 2038

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Except for leap seconds. Time is the worst to work with :(

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omg

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That’s not true, lots of people are panicking about how fast they’re getting older

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AfaIk that’s not entirely true, e.g. Debian is changing the system time from 32 bit integer to 64 bit. Thus I assume other distros do this as well. However, this does not help for industrial or IOT devices running deprecated Unix / Linux derivatives.

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industrial or IOT devices running deprecated Unix / Linux derivatives

This is my concern, all the embedded devices happily running in underground systems like pipes and cables. I assume there are at least a few which nobody even considered patching because they’ve “just worked” for decades!

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Or like… PLANES! Some planes still update their firmware using floppy disks

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