At 03:14:07 UTC on Tuesday, January 19, 2038, the Unix timestamp reaches 2,147,483,647 and can go no further. One second later, affected systems will believe it is Friday, December 13, 1901. The Administration considers this suboptimal.
Enter any date of personal or professional significance. The Administration will determine what a signed 32-bit system believes that date to be.
Preparedness begins at home. Complete the checklist below. Completion confers no protection but will be noted.
Yes. The year 2038 problem is a genuine, well-documented limitation of signed 32-bit time_t. The countdown on this page is accurate. The Administration, however, is not real, holds no authority, and cannot help you. This combination is common in government.
Largely. Modern operating systems moved to 64-bit time, which is safe until the year 292,277,026,596, at which point a successor agency will be stood up. The remaining risk lives in embedded systems, industrial controllers, file formats, and that one server nobody is allowed to reboot. You know the one.
Nothing of note, which is why the computers chose it. It was also a Friday the 13th. The Administration has confirmed this is a coincidence and has asked that it not be described as an omen in official correspondence.
The threat level is stored in a signed 32-bit field and cannot be updated until after the event, at which point it will read ELEVATED and the date will read 1901. The Administration apologizes in advance, retroactively.
No. The Administration is funded by a fixed appropriation of $0, disbursed annually and fully spent. An audit found no irregularities, because auditing zero is very fast.