[$] 2038: only 21 years away
Sometimes it seems that things have gone relatively quiet on the year-2038
front. But time keeps moving forward, and the point in early 2038 when
32-bit time_t values can no longer represent times correctly is
now less than 21 years away. That may seem like a long time, but the
relatively long life cycle of many
embedded systems means that some systems deployed today will still be in
service when that deadline hits. One of the developers leading the effort
to address this problem is Arnd Bergmann; at Linaro Connect 2017 he gave an
update on where that work stands.