Venerable Linux distribution Debian is side-stepping the Y2K38 bug – also known as the Unix Epochalypse – by switching to 64-bit time for everything but the ...

Dates and times stored in 32 bits on Unix-like systems will “overflow” in early 2038 — but the problems, and the patches, start now. Patch early, patch often, they say — almost 13 years early in the ...

Open source software doesn’t just happen, of course, but is the result of a lot of unheralded work by a vast range of people. In that context I was interested to see this one pop into my inbox, and it ...