From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 7 11:48:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA19001 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 7 Nov 1997 11:48:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA18995 for ; Fri, 7 Nov 1997 11:48:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shovey@buffnet.net) Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net (shovey@buffnet11.buffnet.net [205.246.19.55]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA29057; Fri, 7 Nov 1997 14:47:53 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 7 Nov 1997 14:48:56 -0500 (EST) From: Steve Hovey To: Gary Piercey cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Year 2000 Compliance of FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <3463A97A.E30@morgan.ucs.mun.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk if it were me and were really a big issue, I would set up a test box - set it to new years eve of 1999 and see what you had left in the morning. On Fri, 7 Nov 1997, Gary Piercey wrote: > 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 >