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Linux clockpocalypse in 2038 is looming and there's no 'serious plan'

Michael Wojcik Silver badge

Re: Too late!

> Your bank's central IT system?

Which part exactly?

Please be precise.

Also please keep in mind that some of us have actually worked in banks.

Oh, please. We do bank migrations all the time with source code that's more than ten years old. Twenty isn't particularly unusual. Generally no one knows what half that source code is for, or how much of it represents programs actually in use. And that's when they have source code; at least a couple times a year I see queries about decompiling binaries that no one can find the sources for.

I've seen customers running OS releases that are more than ten years old.

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