Grny: The perils of transition to 64-bit time_t

Date:
Sun, 29 Sep 2024 07:23:16 +0000

Description:
Micha Grny describes
the challenges involved in transitioning Gentoo to year-2038-safe time representations: There is a general agreement that the way forward is to change
time_t to a 64-bit type. Musl has already switched to that, glibc
supports it as an option. A number of other distributions such as
Debian have taken the leap and switched. Unfortunately,
source-based distributions such as Gentoo don't have it that
easy. So we are still debating the issue and experimenting, trying
to figure out a maximally safe upgrade path for our users. Unfortunately, that's nowhere near trivial. Above all, we are
talking about a breaking ABI change.

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