What should we do to prepare for 2038?

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I would like to think that some of the software I\'m writing today will be used in 30 years. But I am also aware that a lot of it is based upon the UNIX tradition of exposin

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What should we do to prepare for 2038?

Hide, because the apocalypse is coming.

But seriously, I hope that compilers (or the people who write them, to be precise) can handle this. They've got almost 30 years. I hope that's enough time.

At what point do we start preparing for Y10K? Have any hardware manufacturers / research labs looked into the easiest way to move to whatever new technology we'll have to have because of it?