Essentially what happens is that computers measure dates as the number of seconds since Jan 1st 1970 (known as Epoch). 32 bits can only count seconds up to Jan 19 2038, after that it will cause an overflow and reset to zero. Most modern systems use 64 bits for dates even if the processor is 32. Same reason why 32 bit computers shouldn’t use more than 4GB of RAM (they can’t address it properly)
Completely missed the joke about 2k being 2048, hahahaha
Here’s the wiki page https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
Essentially what happens is that computers measure dates as the number of seconds since Jan 1st 1970 (known as Epoch). 32 bits can only count seconds up to Jan 19 2038, after that it will cause an overflow and reset to zero. Most modern systems use 64 bits for dates even if the processor is 32. Same reason why 32 bit computers shouldn’t use more than 4GB of RAM (they can’t address it properly)