A collaborative BoF on mapping, triaging, and coordinating 2038-class rollover remediation across distros, libraries, runtimes, and embedded toolchains.

The 2038 problem isn’t about legacy Unix systems. It’s about pervasive 32-bit time_t assumptions that are still baked into modern library interfaces, protocol implementations, and embedded toolchains. Many 64-bit systems continue to depend on libraries and firmware that cannot safely represent time beyond 2038.

This BoF invites distro maintainers, embedded developers, and infrastructure engineers to share inventories, swap remediation strategies, identify high-impact targets, and coordinate next steps across the open source ecosystem.

Bring your war stories.