Why signed?
Why is this a signed 32 bit integer? Is there any particular reason? 188.147.100.26 (talk) 01:30, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
- So that times before the epoch can be stored. David Malone (talk) 13:57, 17 December 2023 (UTC)
- Things existed before 1970. People's birthdates, for a quite common example. ~2025-35601-84 (talk) 11:08, 22 November 2025 (UTC)
Additional citations?
In Jan. 2024 Year 2038 problem has received the "Needs more citations" flag. It's a brief article with 29 citations and most of them seem reliable at a glance. This page recently received an influx of views due to being linked by a comment on a popular Reddit post. Now, has it been flagged because many if not most or all citations are news articles, or what? Warm Yellow Sunflower (talk) 17:51, 7 February 2024 (UTC)
- User:Zerbu added {{More citations needed}} on 5 January 2024, without any specific details in his edit summary, nor a topic on this talk page. In my opinion there are sufficient citations for an article of this size, and all citations are sufficiently reliable. I share User:Warm Yellow Sunflower's confusion about exactly why User:Zebru added this template? Unless User:Zerbu or others jump into this talk to share their concerns, I recommend that {{More citations needed}} be removed from this article in the next few weeks. -- netjeff (talk) 20:48, 24 March 2024 (UTC)
- I removed the template. There's plenty of citations in the article. Sure there's some unsourced passages but that's pretty normal; doesn't necessitate a template. TarkusABtalk/contrib 22:25, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
- Thanks for the clarification and swift action TarkusAB. As a new user I hesitate to remove flags, so I'm grateful for your help. Warm Yellow Sunflower (talk) 17:16, 6 June 2025 (UTC)
- I removed the template. There's plenty of citations in the article. Sure there's some unsourced passages but that's pretty normal; doesn't necessitate a template. TarkusABtalk/contrib 22:25, 25 March 2024 (UTC)
Upcoming implementation of a solution for Debian
I don't believe it has actually been rolled out yet, but Debian will switch to 64-bit time_t sometime soon:
https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/25/y2k38_bug_debian/ YarrowFlower (talk) 17:33, 22 September 2025 (UTC)
"Year 2068 problem" listed at Redirects for discussion
The redirect Year 2068 problem has been listed at redirects for discussion to determine whether its use and function meets the redirect guidelines. Readers of this page are welcome to comment on this redirect at Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2025 December 20 § Year 2068 problem until a consensus is reached. Vestrian24Bio 13:16, 20 December 2025 (UTC)
Shouldn't the overflow happen slightly earlier?
I calculated the date and time by hand and came up with January 18 2038 at 15:28:30 UTC. I could be wrong, though.
Leuchar55 (talk) 03:23, 2 June 2026 (UTC)
- Actually, I did the math again and ended up at Jan 18 2038 at 3:14:07 UTC. A day earlier.
- Leuchar55 (talk) 03:27, 2 June 2026 (UTC)
- So, there are 68 years and 17 of them are leap years and you get 18 full days in 2038. Each day is 86400 seconds long (except leap seconds). Then you get 3 full hours, 14 full minutes and 7 seconds in Jan 19th. You can check that this is zero:
- (365*68+17+18)*86400 + 3*3600 + 14*60 + 7 - 2147483647
- David Malone (talk) 10:59, 2 June 2026 (UTC)