TLDR InfoSec · MISCELLANEOUS
DEBIAN ISN'T WAITING FOR 2038 TO BLOW UP, SWITCHES TO 64-BIT TIME FOR EVERYTHING
Summary from the TLDR InfoSec newsletter
Debian will switch to 64-bit time on 32-bit architectures from Debian 13 "Trixie" to prevent the Y2K38 bug, where 32-bit signed integers overflow on January 19, 2038. This affects 6,429 packages and breaks ABI compatibility, but maintainers have fixed all affected libraries. The legacy i386 port keeps 32-bit time for compatibility with existing x86 binaries.