[u-u] The Y2038 issue and Debian 13 (aka: "Trixie")

[Colin McGregor]

My bad, I was looking at some old stuff... There is currently a
planned release date for "Trixie", so barring some huge strange /
bizarre last minute issue "Trixie" will be out August 9th, 2025.

On Tue, Jul 29, 2025 at 6:06 PM Colin McGregor <colin.mc151 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Below is a story about where Debian 13 (aka: "Trixie") stands
> regarding the Y2038 issue. In quick summary the Y2038 issue is that
> time in the current stable Debian release (and to the best of my
> knowledge all other Linux distributions) stores time as a 32 bit
> number with the number of seconds since January 1st, 1970 AD. After
> 03:14:07 UTC on January 19, 2038 you may have Linux systems thinking
> it is 1970.
>
>  "Trixie" will be the first Debian release to use 64 bit time. so they
> will be kicking the issue of running out of time from 2038 to
> 40,000,000,000 A.D. which should be good enough for most applications
> :-) . Trixie is in final testing with a final release date not yet
> announced, so this is in the "coming soon" class...
>
> https://lowendbox.com/blog/starting-to-catch-up-linux-finally-addresses-the-epochalypse-that-openbsd-fixed-in-2014/
>
> For anyone who is saying to themselves this doesn't matter to me
> because I run ..."<<Blah>>"... Linux remember that a bunch of other
> Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu and Raspberry Pi OS are based off
> of Debian, so this change will ...echo... well outside just Debian.