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The Unix Timestamp Ticking Time Bomb: Navigating the 2038 Challenge

by cyberlurker on 9/29/25, 1:53 PM with 2 comments

• by poppobit on 9/29/25, 2:00 PM

  Totally feel this. I once found an entire site built with nothing but MySQL timestamp. I switched everything over to DATETIME, but since I did it in a straightforward way, I kept worrying there were hidden bugs lurking. In the end I just closed the laptop and thought, “whatever happens, happens.”

• by Havoc on 9/29/25, 3:39 PM

  Guessing this is fixable on an incremental basis?

  If all new software now starts using 64bit then presumably in 13 years time it's only a long tail of never been updated software that is an actual problem