CentralNotice From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search computer software bug with 32-bit system times One of the possible manifestations of the bug on a specific machine: the date could reset at 03:14:08 UTC on 19 January 2038. The Year 2038 problem (also called Y2038 , Epochalypse , [1] [2] Y2k38 , or Unix Y2K ) relates to representing time in many digital systems as the number of seconds passed since 00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970 and storing it as a signed 32-bit integer . Such implementations cannot encode times after 03:14:07 UTC on 19 January 2038. Similar to the Y2K problem , the Year 2038 problem is caused by insufficient capacity used to represent time. 1 Cause 2 Early problems 3 Vulnerable systems 4 Data structures with time problems 5 Network Time Protocol timestamps 6 Possible solutions 7 See also 8 Notes 9 Refer...