Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 18:19:01 +0000 (GMT) From: Stephen Roome <steve@visint.co.uk> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tell the world about Year 2000 Compliance Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.971119181249.15331F-100000@dylan.visint.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <199711191807.LAA05380@mt.sri.com>
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On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Nate Williams wrote: > > Finally, what's being done (if any?) to insure that FreeBSD _IS_ and > > _REMAINS_ Year 2000 compliant... e.g. New packages/ports etc. > > The non-use of Cobol. :) Well, that's sort of important I guess, but it's bad enough that most peoples only problem with Cobol is the date thing! > Seriously, almost all unix programs store times/date as milliseconds > since 1970, so they don't have a Y2K problem, but they have the Year > 2038 problem. However, it's hoped that by the time this comes about the > number used to store the time will be bumped to a much bigger #, making > the problem go away. Yes, but what about packages and apps which get installed as the default system which don't do this ? How about things which might store in strange internal formats in their own files. This is my main concern, after noticing that date can have leap seconds and stuff I guess it look carefully thought out. > However, if that doesn't happen *OR* the programs in question aren't > recompiled, the problem will be the same for them in 2038. However, by > then I won't care since I'll be old and grey. :) :) :) I'm not worried about this one until our clients tell me that they aren't going to be doing business until I can prove that our systems are Year 2038 Compliant. Something I doubt they'll worry about for a while. Maybe premature by in 203x this sounds like the sort of thing that'll give UNIX the sort of name Cobol has. (although, yes, I guess it'll have been fixed by then!) Steve. -- Steve Roome - Vision Interactive Ltd. Tel:+44(0)117 9730597 Home:+44(0)976 241342 WWW: http://dylan.visint.co.uk/
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