From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Apr 23 4:52:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at [128.130.111.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DAB514EA2 for ; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 04:52:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at) Received: from markab (markab [128.130.111.33]) by vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA02854; Fri, 23 Apr 1999 13:48:55 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 13:48:55 +0200 (MET DST) From: Gerald Pfeifer To: Ilya Varlashkin Cc: Ludwig Pummer , chad@rez.com, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Year 2000 In-Reply-To: <199904231136.PAA44330@diamond.ripn.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 23 Apr 1999, Ilya Varlashkin wrote: > "After extensive analysis and testing, we believe that > FreeBSD is 100% Y2K compliant...." (from that page) > > But what about struct tm from /usr/include/time.h: > > int tm_year; /* years since 1900 */ For Y2, tm_year==100. For 10000 we will have tm_year==8100. Actually the very line you quote above is year 20,000 compliant, even year 200,000 or 2,000,000 compliant! ;-) Gerald -- Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message