UNIX time coding has since ... "Most UNIX-based systems use a 32 bit clock that starts at the arbitrary date of 1/1/1970, so adding 68 years gives you a risk of overflow at 2038," he explains.

"So finally we said, 'Let's pick one thing that's not going to overflow for a while ... Remember that Unix time is kept as a 32-bit signed binary integer. There is no reason to believe that ...

The Year 2038 problem is that the program malfunctions due to a UNIX time overflow, but most programs ... inside the system in the form of signed 32-bit integers, and had the problem that it ...