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Year 2038 problem: 32-bit Unix time overflows

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    There are 4,109 days until Year 2038 problem: 32-bit Unix time overflows, on Tuesday, 19 January 2038.

    At 03:14:07 UTC on 19 January 2038 the count of seconds since 1 January 1970 passes 2,147,483,647, the largest value a signed 32-bit integer can hold. Software that still stores time in 32 bits wraps around to December 1901 at that instant unless it has been patched.

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