“Linux, like other POSIX-compliant operating systems,
provides facilities for coping with the Y2K bug, and software
written properly for Linux should be able to cope with the end of
the millennium.”
“As a systems administrator, however, you may want to test both
your Linux systems and any applications running on them for date
compliance…”
“Linux keeps track of the time using the 32-bit time_t type that
maintains the count of UTC calendar time, which is the number of
seconds since January 1, 1970.”