I honestly think there won't be any big bugs/outages by 2038. Partly because I have a naive optimism that any important system will not only have the OS/stdlibs support 64bit time, but that important systems that need accurate time probably use NTP/network time, and that means their test/dev/qa equivalent deployments can be hooked up to use a test network time server that will simulate post-2038 times to see what crashes.

12 years+ is a long time to prepare for this. Normally I wouldn't have much faith in test/dev systems, network time being setup properly,etc...but it's a long time. Even if none of my assumptions are true, in a decade we couldn't at least identify where 32bit time is being used and plan for contingencies? that's unlikely.

But hey, let me know when Python starts supporting nano-second precision time :'(

https://stackoverflow.com/a/10612166

Although, it's been a while since I checked to see they support it. In Windows-land at least, everything system-side uses 64bit/nsec precision, as far as I've had to deal with it at least.