From owner-freebsd-chat Thu Nov 20 00:51:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA21894 for chat-outgoing; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 00:51:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id AAA21885 for ; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 00:51:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from j@uriah.heep.sax.de) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id JAA06393 for freebsd-chat@freebsd.org; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 09:51:20 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.8/8.8.5) id JAA01465; Thu, 20 Nov 1997 09:27:41 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19971120092740.VD37373@uriah.heep.sax.de> 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 References: <15641.879990156@jkh.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.60_p2-3,5,8-9 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <15641.879990156@jkh.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Nov 19, 1997 17:42:36 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)