The Year 2038 Problem
A ticking time bomb for computer systems
Some systems store epoch dates as a signed 32-bit integer, which might cause problems on January 19, 2038
The Year 2038 problem is a potential time-related computer bug that may affect computer systems that use a 32-bit integer to store epoch dates.
Epoch dates are a way of representing a point in time as the number of seconds that have elapsed since a particular point in time, known as the 'epoch'. In most computer systems, the epoch is January 1, 1970.
The Year 2038 problem occurs because a 32-bit integer can only represent dates up to January 19, 2038, at 03:14:07 UTC.
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