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More of a front end issue actually, almost all time is just stored as the number of seconds since 00:00:00 Jan 1 1970.
And it's represented as a 64 bits value, which is over 500 billions years.
.... About that... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem
That's the 32 bit timestamp
We've still got time to fix it, and the next release of Debian will likely have a time-64 complete userland. I don't know the status of other "bedrock" distributions, but I expect that for all Linux (and BSD) systems that don't have to support a proprietary time-32 program, everything will be time-64 with nearly a decade to spare.