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Re: Y2038 - best way forward in Debian?



Simon Richter <sjr@debian.org> writes:
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 12:25:48PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:

>> I am sure that around 2035 "time namespaces" or something similar will 
>> be implemented to solve this.

> Hopefully a bit earlier. I have a few pieces of software that only build in
> virtual machines with a timezone offset to UTC of -10 years, and I'd really
> like to move them to containers or light them on fire.

Time namespaces were merged for Linux 5.6.

https://lwn.net/Articles/766089/
https://lwn.net/Articles/810780/

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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)              <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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