January 19, 2038: the Unix Date Bug

January 19, 2038

It is on that day that the 32-bit integer storing the number of seconds since the beginning of the epoch (1 January 1970) will overflow. I’ve long known about the possible Unix date issue but this is the first I’ve heard of an actual bug due to an overflow of the data structure.

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