Venerable Linux distribution Debian is side-stepping the Y2K38 bug – also known as the Unix Epochalypse – by switching to 64-bit time for everything but the ...

Dates and times stored in 32 bits on Unix-like systems will “overflow” in early 2038 — but the problems, and the patches, start now. Patch early, patch often, they say — almost 13 years early in the ...

AntiX 26 "Stephen Kapos" is the newly updated version of antiX, based on last year's Debian 13 "Trixie" release. There are a ...

London, UK – May 19, 2016 – Imagination Technologies (IMG.L) announces it is working with the Debian Project to accelerate development of the popular, open source Debian operating system (OS) for the ...

The big picture: On January 19, 2038, at 03:14:07 UTC, certain Unix-based computer systems will encounter a critical timekeeping failure. Due to a software flaw known as the "Y2K38 bug," 32-bit ...

Open source software doesn’t just happen, of course, but is the result of a lot of unheralded work by a vast range of people. In that context I was interested to see this one pop into my inbox, and it ...