From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 25 20:02:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA20935 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 20:02:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from uhura.concentric.net (uhura.concentric.net [206.173.119.93]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAB20930 for ; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 20:02:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Ashort@concentric.net) Received: from cliff.concentric.net (cliff [206.173.119.90]) by uhura.concentric.net (8.8.8/(98/05/18 5.10)) id XAA29656; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 23:02:43 -0400 (EDT) [1-800-745-2747 The Concentric Network] Received: from voyager.cris.com (voyager.concentric.net [206.173.119.82]) by cliff.concentric.net (8.8.8) id XAA02390; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 23:02:42 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 22:02:42 -0500 (EST) From: Andrew Short X-Sender: Ashort@voyager.cris.com To: "David C. Frye" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Y2K In-Reply-To: <000001bda097$401b51c0$bebe7dd1@xena> Message-ID: Approved: If I was would I be here? MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It is compliant. The answer for this one as well as (almost?) all other Unices is that it is y2k compliant, but that the "ticker" on the internal clock runs out of bits in the year 1037 (I think?). BTW, this info isn't in the FAQ? On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, David C. Frye wrote: > I am currently considering installing either FreeBSD or Debian LINUX on my > PC. Can you tell me if FreeBSD is Y2K compliant. I know that Debian LINUX's > 2.0 version is and also has a program called "hwclock" that will unable an > individual to run Debian LINUX after the year 2000 on older ix86 > motherboards and still maintain Y2K compliance. I am unable to find any Y2K > information on FreeBSD on the FreeBSD website. > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew Short Colossians 3:23 ashort@concentric.net http://www.concentric.net/~ashort/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message