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What should we do to prepare for 2038?
What is year 2038 problem?
How to find out if our code has that problem and solve it?
In C the standard 4-byte format assumes that the beginning of time is January 1, 1970, at 12:00:00 a.m. This value is 0.The maximum value of time before it rolls over to a negative (and invalid) value is 2,147,483,647, which translates into January 19, 2038. On this date, any C programs that use the standard time library will start to have problems with date calculations.To correct it simply recompile the programs with a new version of the library that uses 8-byte values for the storage format.