Future of 32 bit time_t?

[Daniel Franke]

On 3/13/17, Eric S. Raymond <esr at thyrsus.com> wrote:
> I think so.  I'd worry about this more if I thought we were going to be
> running
> on a lot of legacy embedded systems in the *near* future, but by 21 years
> from
> now I seriously doubt a significant fraction of our potential targets will
> be
> 32-bit.

I question this prediction. I expect there to be plenty of
*newly-manufactured* 32-bit embedded systems for the indefinite
future, well beyond 2038. Nobody needs or wants 64 bits to control a
coffee pot.