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News: Linux 3.17 is Getting ready for the Year 2038
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We should be running Quantum PCs by 2038, right?
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Oh, the singularity will happen by then, and only the Minds will understand just how it is they function anyway.
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When asked whether or not Linux was susceptible to the Y2K bug, Torvalds answered no, that's now how time is kept in Linux.
"There is the 2038 problem, but hopefully people will be using something better than Linux by then."
and...
"Changing the timer from 32 to 64 bytes is trivial, merely a kernel upgrade, and that will outlast the heat death of the universe. I think that will be enough."