The Epochalypse is Coming: Are Your 32-bit...

The Countdown You Didn't Know Existed We all remember the Y2K scare. Well, the tech world has a new "final boss" date: The Deadline: January 19, 2038, at 03:14:07 UTC. At this exact second, millions of systems could "time travel" back to December 13, 1901. This isn't a sci-fi plot; it’s a mathematical certainty for systems using 32-bit signed integers to store time. The Root Cause: Integer Overflow Most Unix-based systems measure time as the number of seconds elapsed since the Unix Epoch (Januar