Date: Mon, 18 Jan 1999 23:31:15 -0500 (EST) From: sjr@home.net To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: docs/9562: Update for y2kbug.sgml Message-ID: <199901190431.XAA26050@istari.home.net>
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>Number: 9562
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: Add latest round of problems to this page
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: high
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
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>Class: change-request
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Mon Jan 18 20:40:00 PST 1999
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Stephen J. Roznowski
>Release: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
I've added the latest set of bugs to this page.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
--- www/en/y2kbug.sgml.orig Fri Jan 15 16:10:44 1999
+++ www/en/y2kbug.sgml Mon Jan 18 23:28:49 1999
@@ -132,6 +132,53 @@
use this obsolete format are no longer widespread, this is not expected
to have a significant impact.
</dd>
+
+ <dt><a
+ href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=9500">misc/9500</a></dt>;
+ <dd>The `edithook' script in the CVSROOT directory uses a raw tm_year and
+ will therefore display 01/01/100 for 2000-JAN-01.
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt><a
+ href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=9501">bin/9501</a></dt>;
+ <dd>Several cvs contrib files are not Y2K compliant.
+ The log.pl and sccs2rcs.csh scripts prepend `19' to the year
+ resulting in a display of 19100 for 2000. The log_accum.pl
+ script uses a two digit year in one place and in another
+ place assumes that the tm_year is year within century rather
+ than years since 1900.
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt><a
+ href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=9502">bin/9502</a></dt>;
+ <dd>The groff number register `yr' is assigned from a (struct tm).tm_year
+ and therefore represents the number of years since 1900, not the
+ year within the century (see definition in troff/input.cc).
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt><a
+ href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=9503">bin/9503</a></dt>;
+ <dd>PicoBSD's simple_httpd uses a raw tm_year and will therefore
+ display 01/01/100 for 2000-JAN-01.
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt><a
+ href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=9505">bin/9505</a></dt>;
+ <dd>Adduser uses a raw tm_year and will therefore display 100/01/01 for
+ 2000-JAN-01.
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt><a
+ href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=9506">bin/9506</a></dt>;
+ <dd>Cron uses a raw tm_year and will therefore display 100 for 2000.
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt><a
+ href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=9507">bin/9507</a></dt>;
+ <dd>tcpslice(8) uses a raw tm_year and will therefore display
+ 100y01m01d... for 2000-JAN-01. For compatibility, use a two-digit
+ year until 2000.
+ </dd>
</dl>
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