What do you think an official solution for the "Year 2038 problem" is going to be as most systems have different solutions?

Learn the most popular language with the most machines with the problem. Get paid high amounts to fix it. Scramble and make updates until we are 99% sure we got it. Just like last time.

Honestly, it may just be a patch on a lot of systems, if they are still around. Yes, I know machines can last for decades, but most everything being made now is fixed. So that puts us 20 years away. So hopefully the old ass machines we have now will be fixed by then.

The other approach is we can play Chicken Little and run around with our heads cut off warning about impending doom. We could try to use this looming issue as a justification to radically change the "system" and our "way of life" in order to placate a minority of loud and ignorant people. So, I guess there are multiple ways to solve the "coming crisis".

The solution is already there for all 64 bit Linux systems because time is an int64_t there that doesn't wrap around before roughly 300 billion years.

Someone still has an x86 server somewhere?

@C0D4 probably not, but someone might have a bunch of 32bit embedded systems still.