It's amazing that there's only 24 years left until 2^31 seconds since the epoch... I'm looking forward to January 19, 2038 (provided that I'm still around by that time...)
Actually 2038 is scary because it can affect many systems that need to calculate things long (pun intended) in the future. Imagine if you take a 25 year mortgage and the backend system still uses 32bit clock_t...
