From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 4 7:58:17 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from righi.ml.org (RIGHI.DF.UNIBO.IT [137.204.49.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B480214FB5 for ; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 07:58:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from riccardo@righi.ml.org) Received: from localhost (riccardo@localhost) by righi.ml.org (8.9.2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id QAA03960; Thu, 4 Mar 1999 16:57:19 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from riccardo@righi.ml.org) Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 16:57:16 +0100 (CET) From: Riccardo Veraldi To: Mike Frizzell Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Y2K certified? In-Reply-To: <1DB76097AE98D211A7990008C7B1E548499AAD@sws_excg4.swst.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG the problem is of applications you use on a system also FreBSD is YK2 compiland because it stores infoes about dates in seconds from the epoch 1st January 1970 so it has not problems with year 2000. the problem is eventually is some applications which could crach becaues they are not YK2 compilant. So this is not a problem of FreeBSD. As far as I know GNU is rewriting all programs in order to make all of them YK2 compilant Rick On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Mike Frizzell wrote: > Which versions of FreeBSD are considered Y2K compliant? Are there patches > for older versions to make them compliant? > > > Michael T. Frizzell - Network Systems > Southwest Securities / TeleTeam Internet > Telephone: 214/859-1739 > Pager: 1-800-SKYTEL2 w/ PIN 7994350 > PagerMail: 7994350@skytel.com > Fax: 214/859-1705 > Any comments or statements made are not necessarily those of Southwest > Securities Group, Inc. , its subsidiaries, or affiliates. > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message