Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 09:27:40 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Tell the world about Year 2000 Compliance Message-ID: <19971120092740.VD37373@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <15641.879990156@jkh.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Nov 19, 1997 17:42:36 -0800 References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971119152857.8550A-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> <15641.879990156@jkh.cdrom.com>
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As Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > Yes, several systems at Walnut Creek CDROM were set 20-30 years ahead > and used for several months in that mode before the claim was made. :-) Albeit, date(1) should be taught about accepting a century. (I read in the man page that it does some guesswork, but i think people might get used to explicitly spell the century around the Y2K turnover.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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