Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 05:47:48 GMT From: jbg@masterplan.org (Jason George) To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Year 2000 Compliance Message-ID: <199901140547.WAA11845@gongshow.masterplan.org>
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As a complete aside, I was doing some fast hackery today with a Compaq 486/25 (the ugly ones with the built-in monitor) which does NOT have a Y2K-compliant BIOS (ie - 01/01/00 in the CMOS clock turns into January 01/80 under DOS). I have run 1999->2000 "rollovers" with FreeBSD 2.2.8+ on a lot of different hardware that is Y2K-compliant. I haven't encountered a problem yet. I decided to try a rollover on the non-compliant Compaq. I had never done this before, figuring there was no point. I was quite surprised in my results. The Compaq, while running 2.2.8+, rolled over correctly! y2k# date Fri Dec 31 23:53:22 MST 1999 y2k# date Sat Jan 1 00:00:03 MST 2000 y2k# A reboot into the BIOS screen yields a 01/01/00 CMOS date, a reboot under DOS yields a 01/01/80 system date, and a reboot into FreeBSD yields 01/01/2000. Is this just luck? Am I playing with fire here? Have I stumbled onto a new possible source for cheap NATD packet filters for the new millenium? :-) --Jason j.b.george<at>ieee.org jbg<at>masterplan.org >> However as the Millennium approaches ye might want to consider to upgrade >> to the latest stable version around Summer to be even more sure that if any >> problems were found they will be fixed by then. >> >> According to core, every version greater than 2.2.6 (so 2.2.7 and onwards >> is truely believed to be 2000 compliant). >> >> I hope this satisfies yer question? > >It does indeed - many thanks. > > >Michael. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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