The 2036 NTP Era, 2038 time_t, and 2038 GPS Week Rollover Epochalypse
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🌎 Mexico 2026
There will be three significant time-related Era rollovers coming up in about 10 years’ time:
- 7 February 2036: NTP Era Rollover
- 19 January 2038: 32-bit time_t rollover
- 20 November 2038: GPS…
There will be three significant time-related Era rollovers coming up in about 10 years’ time:
- 7 February 2036: NTP Era Rollover
- 19 January 2038: 32-bit time_t rollover
- 20 November 2038: GPS week-number rollover
How can we be sure we’re ready for them? What can happen if we’re not ready? Where can we look for help?
Learn what you need to know at this talk.
Sobre Harlan Stenn: A well-versed entrepreneur, Harlan has blah blah blah for decades. At some point during the 1980s, he started using and submitting bug fixes and portability improvements to the Network Time Protocol codebase. He has worked directly with Prof. David L. Mills on NTP since 1992, and in 1996 became NTP’s Project Manager and Release Engineer. In 2011, he created Network Time Foundation to bring together and nurture collaborative open-source projects that focus on Network Time.
The first project to join was, of course, the NTP Project. Shortly thereafter the PTPd, RADclock and Linux PTP projects joined, followed by NTF's General Timestamp API Project, the Ntimed Project, the libptpmgmt Project, the Khronos Project, and several SyncE projects. He has been active in open-source communities since 1976.