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Date:      Sat, 27 Jun 1998 11:13:32 +0000
From:      labrinop@pop.vaniercollege.qc.ca
To:        freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Re: References: Unix in 20-30 years
Message-ID:  <199806271515.LAA08869@pteradactyl>

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On Fri, 26 Jun 1998 Tim Gerchmez wrote:

> No, the fact is that I personally am unconcerned with Y2K issues as 
> of yet.  I'm not a business, I'm a home user, and I don't even run 
> any software I know of that would be affected (and I don't program 
> in C at the current time, either). The worst that's gonna happen is 
> that my Email will be dated 1900.  Big deal, so anyone with 
> cerebrospinal fluid where their brain is supposed to be might think 
> it's 1900. Maybe they'll go looking for Thomas Edison for light 
> bulbs instead of going to the supermarket.

  I used to do the weekly tape backup on a VAX-11/750, and remembered 
once that one of the directory entries got corrupted, and on a 
directory listing it showed the a file creatation date of 1856, that 
was one old file.  Hmmm, wonder if VAXs are Y2K compliant.

  I also have a friend who wanted to test the Y2K bug on his machine, 
so he set the year to 1999 and forgot to restore it. All his email 
was dated 1999.

PeterL

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