Are you ready for... 2038?

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HELP MY MAIN LAPTOP IS 32BIT AND RUNS LINUX

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Also XP but XP is pretty much useless now

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Windows XP doesn't have that problem, maybe some apps on it were affected, but as a whole your calendar could last at least 30 hundred years. DOS is even older and it could last up until 2099.

I think for the most part 64bit computers already have the problem solved. Windows should be able to store dates from 1 January 1601 to 14 September 30828. Unix like machines can use dates from 1 January 1970 to 4 December 292277026596 and Macs from 1 January 2001 ±10,000 years.

The article Year 2038 problem most of what could happen. Older  hardware and software that use dates are going to run into problems.

Software will probably have to be changed. I recently came across an old Y2K problem. Excel and Google Sheets now use the 2029 rule to calculate which century 2-figure years belong to. Many of the dates in the source material for pages like this which contain dates from 1860 to 1914 only used 2-digit years so they all had to be checked before I could publish them.

This wikipedia page makes this ordeal confusing. Is Unix or Posix capable of lasting until 292277026596? It says up until version 5.10 linux could only last until 2038 and since version 5.10 it can go up to 2486, so that's for linux specifically and the other value is for posix like FreeBSD (which isn't linux mind you) then?

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I'll probably have to change my OS. Right now I'm using OS X Mavericks, which is 64-bit but still has 32-bit binaries, so it'll probably have some issues. I'll either have to upgrade to OS X Catalina, which can't run 32-bit binaries, or switch to Windows XP. I think some of my iPods won't be able to run (my nanos?) but I believe my iPod classic should be able to run until 2099? So I think I should probably be okay.

Edit: apparently Mavericks works with a date of 2040 according to someone on the MacRumors forum? I think I might have to worry more about the HFS+, but we'll see. I hope I can still use my vintage Macs as long as possible!