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x86 32-bit Operating Systems Aren't Dead Yet: New Linux Patches Improve 32-bit PAE (www.phoronix.com)
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[–] lengau@midwest.social 5 points 6 months ago

time_t will remain 32-bit to avoid breaking ABI compatibility. However, Linux on 32-bit platforms has a full set of syscalls that return time64_t values. I don't know about other distros, but since 24.04 Ubuntu has had everything in its repositories using those calls.