From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 18 2:17:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from martens.math.ntnu.no (martens.math.ntnu.no [129.241.15.250]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F216714DA9 for ; Tue, 18 Jan 2000 02:17:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from perhov@math.ntnu.no) Received: (qmail 19456 invoked by uid 29119); 18 Jan 2000 10:17:47 -0000 Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 11:17:47 +0100 (MET) From: Per Kristian Hove X-Sender: perhov@martens.math.ntnu.no To: Marcin Cieslak Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Y2K wierdness?? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [Marcin Cieslak] | The problem is, that no one remembers how things used to be | before Y2K. I suppose that 1 Jan 1980 date (or DOS epoch) | was normal. Yes, either DOS or UNIX epoch. This output is from a really old backup, so I don't remember on which OS version[*] it's been made, but it goes to show that it's always been this way. $ tar tvzf svele-c.tar.gz |head -3 drwx------ perhov/perhov 0 Jan 1 01:00 1970 ./ -r-x------ perhov/perhov 40566 Sep 30 06:20 1993 io.sys -r-x------ perhov/perhov 38138 Sep 30 06:20 1993 msdos.sys [*] It might even have been NetBSD or Solaris, I can't recall. That may explain the UNIX epoch above. Nonetheless, it's not Y2K related. -- Per Kristian Hove Dept. of Mathematical Sciences, NTNU N-7491 Trondheim, Norway To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message