Hi Craig, On Wed, May 17, 2023 at 10:14:17PM +1000, Craig Small wrote: > On Wed, 17 May 2023 at 14:10, Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote: > > Over on debian-arm@lists, there has been discussion on and off for several > > months now about the impending 32-bit timepocalypse. As many of you are > > aware, 32-bit time_t runs out of space in 2038; the exact date is now less > > than 15 years away. It is not too early to start addressing the question > > of > > 32-bit architecture compatibility, as there are already reports in the wild > > of calendar failures for future events on 32-bit archs. > Hi Steve, > Have they also considered the same issue with utmp? > https://github.com/thkukuk/utmpx/blob/main/Y2038.md > Some of it is reasonably easy to fix by changing the utmp-related calls > with the systemd equivalents, but not all fields are available. This isn't something that's specifically come up. I think there's general recognition that there will be other software that needs to be fixed in ways not addressed by simply turning on -D_TIME_BITS=64. I'm currently restricting my focus to the latter, since it's the part that will require distro-wide coordination. Thanks, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer https://www.debian.org/ slangasek@ubuntu.com vorlon@debian.org
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