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Linux 5.10 to make Year 2038 problem the Year 2486 problem

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Re: No need to imagine

No, dates are stored as 16-bit binary values, where five bits store the day (0-31), four bits store the month (0-12) and the remaining seven bits store the year relative to 1980.

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