From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 7 11:24:28 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA17940 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 7 Nov 1997 11:24:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from cerberus.ucs.mun.ca (cerberus.ucs.mun.ca [134.153.2.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA17934 for ; Fri, 7 Nov 1997 11:24:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gpiercey@morgan.ucs.mun.ca) Received: from lunzie.ucs.mun.ca (lunzie.ucs.mun.ca [134.153.112.61]) by cerberus.ucs.mun.ca (8.8.6/8.8.6) with SMTP id PAA16757; Fri, 7 Nov 1997 15:53:07 -0330 (NST) Message-ID: <3463A97A.E30@morgan.ucs.mun.ca> Date: Fri, 07 Nov 1997 15:51:22 -0800 From: Gary Piercey Reply-To: gpiercey@morgan.ucs.mun.ca Organization: Computing & Communications X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG CC: gpiercey@morgan.ucs.mun.ca Subject: Year 2000 Compliance of FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Dear Sir/Madam, I have been given the task of evaluating the potential problems that will face us here at Memorial University with respect to personal computers. We have some users running FreeBSD on campus and I need to know if the date problem exists in FreeBSD? How is the date and time represented? Is it the same as Linux in that the time and date is represented as the number of seconds elapsed since January 1, 1970? What type of problems will we face when the date rolls over to Year 2000? I couldn't find the answers to these questions on the WWW page so I hope you can provide me with an answer. My deadline is approaching fast so a prompt reply would be much appreciated. Thank you for your help. Gary Piercey Systems Consultant Department of Computing & Communications Memorial University of Newfoundland