Year 2038 Problem : Unix Millenium Bug

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This bug is ancient.

The fix for this is easy. In types.h change

typedef long time_t;

to

typedef long long time_t;

Thereby doubling the amount of space for time_t. Future applications written in c should have this fix or something like it.

It isn't that simple it will break binary compatibility. 64 bit systems should be fine as but older 32 bit will be a problem and there is a lot firmware, embedded systems that won't be updated on time and that's where most of the problems will show up.

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