Comment by bigiain

> but you never know when you need those extra handful of bytes of memory I guess...

I guess on all those crappiest of 32 bit devices with 2.6 based kernels (which are practically unupgradeable due to vendor patches[1]) which will never make it to 2100 to the "year divisible by 100" check, because their time_t overflows in 2038.

On the plus side, that overflow turns the date into 1901, so perhaps they won't actually blow up due to leapyear bugs for another couple of years? That'll be a fun vintage computing archeological bug fix for someone.

[1] I am at least partly responsible for one of these products from a failed hardware startup I work at in 2012/13.