Year 2038 problem: 32-bit Unix time overflows
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There are 4,142 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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