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Where can I find out about Linux and the Millennium (Y2K) bug?

April 26, 2017bug linux millennium Y2K

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Where can I find out about Linux and the Millennium (Y2K) bug?

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The Debian/GNU Linux people have a statement on their Web site at http://www.debian.org Essentially, Linux uses libraries that store dates as 32-bit integers, which count the seconds since 1970. This counter will not overflow until the year 2038, by which time the library programmers will (hopefully) have upgraded the system software to store dates as 64-bit integers. This, of course, does not mean that applications are not susceptible to the millennium bug, if they do not use the standard library routines. The Free Software Foundation has a Web page about Y2K issues in GNU software at http://www.fsf.org/software/year2000.html There is also a Usenet newsgroup, comp.software.year-2000, for general discussion of Y2K issues.