Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 00:21:59 -0400 From: Brandon Fosdick <bfoz@glue.umd.edu> To: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at> Cc: Ilya Varlashkin <ilya@ripn.net>, Ludwig Pummer <ludwigp@bigfoot.com>, chad@rez.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Year 2000 Message-ID: <37229867.3A917F47@glue.umd.edu> References: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9904231340200.22202-100000@markab.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
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Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > > 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 Being an aerospace engineer it seems to me that it would make things a lot easier if all dates were converted to Julian dates before processing. Am I just being a silly engineer? -Brandon -- bfoz@starfleet.umd.edu "In life there are those who steer, and those who push" "I'm not impatient, the world is too slow" "Life is short, so have fun, play hard, and leave a good looking corpse" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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