why year 2038 problem still exist?

[David Chao]

Hi! I recentily have a desktop computer from my indian friend

HP compaq dc5850 Factory come with Windows 7 Basic license, and I would like to install Ubuntu 16.04.7 LTS 32bit

I noticed my system clock can be change to 2038/1/19 -- 01:19:00 but it will return to 1901/9/14

Did I need to replace my Linux Kernel from 4.15.0 to 5.6?

or just leave it to orignal or install Ubuntu 21.04 64bit?

 

 

[Guest]

Why are you worrying about 2038? You still have 16 years left for it to come and I am pretty sure your computer will be long dead before it.

[Sauron]

4 hours ago, David Chao said:

32bit

This is why. I doubt this machine will be still running by 2038...

[jojito]

32 bit probably won't be supported by the time the date comes, unless on very specific hardware, so what's the point of worrying about it? If the time comes when the issue is still present and it needs to be fixed, then the solution will probably be to change the way that 32 bit OS represents dates, but it's a bit useless of a problem to solve