system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
Why is solving the 2038 problem more complicated than simply storing time as 64 bits instead of 32?
gpt
Simply because many embedded systems, which already store time in integer types that are 32 bits or smaller, can't really be modified to change how time is stored. Likewise a lot of software that may still be in use at that time would no longer be in current development it would be similarly impossible to modify it to use 64-bit integers for time.