From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 8 09:11:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id JAA15189 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 09:11:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from proxy.siemens.at (proxy.siemens.at [192.138.228.19]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA15179 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 09:11:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sol1.gud.siemens.co.at (sol-f.gud.siemens-austria) by proxy.siemens.at with SMTP id AA05758 (5.67a/IDA-1.5 for ); Mon, 8 Jul 1996 18:10:20 +0200 Received: from ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at by sol1.gud.siemens.co.at with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #7 for ) id m0udItA-00021OC; Mon, 8 Jul 96 18:10 MET DST Received: by ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at (1.37.109.16/1.37) id AA066302128; Mon, 8 Jul 1996 18:08:48 +0200 From: "Hr.Ladavac" Message-Id: <199607081608.AA066302128@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> Subject: Re: Handling time after 1999 To: lcurtis@intecom.com (Leon Curtis) Date: Mon, 8 Jul 1996 18:08:47 +0200 (MESZ) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Leon Curtis" at Jul 8, 96 09:08:12 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In his e-mail Leon Curtis wrote: > I have been asked to look into what other unix kernel groups are planning > to do to address problems with time when the year 2000 arrives. Most probably nothing. AT&T based unices will have their D-day in 2038, sometime in January (when 32-bit time_t goes negative.) AFAIK, everyone who produced apps for unix internally encoded time as time_t (as it was easier.) Naturally, there will have been some poor souls who programmed in COBOL and used pic(99) for year, but then they deserved it. > > I would appreciate any pointers that would enable me to get "plugged in" > to any dialog / specifications relating to this issue. man time(2) gmtime(3) gettimeofday(2ucb) > > I work for a company that owns a version of (real time) unix put out > by LynxOS (Los Gatos, California). Our PBX product runs this OS and will > be the benefactor of the time changes. Are you sure your PBX product has been coded so that it's vulnerable? > > Thanks! /Marino