Year 2038 Problem: Y2K38

S N Rawoof Ahamed¹, V Saran Raj²

^1,2Department of Information Technology, Dhanalakshmi College of Engineering

Abstract

Our world has been facing many problems but few seemed to be more dangerous. The most famous bug was Y2K. Then Y2K10 somehow, these two were resolved. Now we are going to face Y2K38 bug. This bug will affect most embedded systems and other systems also which use signed 32 bit format for representing the date and time. From 1, January, 1970 the number of seconds represented as signed 32 bit format. Y2K38 problem occurs on 19, January, 2038 at 03:14:07 UTC (Universal Coordinated Time). After this time all bits will be starts from first i.e. the date will change again to 1, January, 1970. There are no proper solutions for this problem.

Keywords

• signed 32 bit integer, time_t, Y2K, Y2K38

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S N Rawoof Ahamed, V Saran Raj. Year 2038 Problem: Y2K38. International Conference on Innovative trends in Electronics Communication and Applications 2014. Vol. 1. Chennai: Association of Scientists, Developers and Faculties, 2014. 211-215. Print.