From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 9 02:21:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA21841 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 9 Jul 1996 02:21:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ki1.chemie.fu-berlin.de (ki1.Chemie.FU-Berlin.DE [160.45.24.21]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA21703 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 1996 02:19:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: by ki1.chemie.fu-berlin.de (Smail3.1.28.1) from mail.hanse.de (193.174.9.9) with smtp id ; Tue, 9 Jul 96 11:19 MEST Received: from wavehh.UUCP by mail.hanse.de with UUCP for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org id ; Tue, 9 Jul 96 11:19 MET DST Received: by wavehh.hanse.de (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA17169; Tue, 9 Jul 96 11:13:47 +0200 Date: Tue, 9 Jul 96 11:13:47 +0200 From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer) Message-Id: <9607090913.AA17169@wavehh.hanse.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Handling time after 1999 Newsgroups: hanse-ml.freebsd.questions References: <199607081608.AA066302128@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> Reply-To: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> 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. About 1 or 2 moths ago a number of fixes for "standard" tools were commited to NetBSD. Most of them used time_t, but introduced bugs when reading and write time values. It might be worth looking at for FreeBSD's equivalents. Martin -- %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Martin Cracauer http://www.bik-gmbh.de/~cracauer Where do you want to go today? Hard to tell running your calendar on a junk OS, eh?