Górny: The perils of transition to 64-bit time_t

Michał Górny <a href="https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2024/09/28/the-perils-of-transition-to-64-bit-time_t/" rel="nofollow">describes
the challenges</a> involved in transitioning Gentoo to year-2038-safe time
representations:


	There is a general agreement that the way forward is to change
	time_t to a 64-bit type. Musl has already switched to that, glibc
	supports it as an option. A number of other distributions such as
	Debian have taken the leap and switched. Unfortunately,
	source-based distributions such as Gentoo don't have it that
	easy. So we are still debating the issue and experimenting, trying
	to figure out a maximally safe upgrade path for our users.

	Unfortunately, that's nowhere near trivial. Above all, we are
	talking about a breaking ABI change.


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