Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1998 09:55:22 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: Brian Beattie <beattie@aracnet.com>, Simon Shapiro <shimon@simon-shapiro.org> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Do we have a Y2K problem after all? (was 64-bit time_t) Message-ID: <19980817095522.53741@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.96.980815155851.9769A-100000@shell2.aracnet.com>; from Brian Beattie on Sat, Aug 15, 1998 at 04:00:00PM -0700 References: <XFMail.980815193426.shimon@simon-shapiro.org> <Pine.LNX.3.96.980815155851.9769A-100000@shell2.aracnet.com>
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On Sat, Aug 15, 1998 at 04:00:00PM -0700, Brian Beattie wrote: > On Sat, 15 Aug 1998, Simon Shapiro wrote: > > > > > On 15-Aug-98 Brian Beattie wrote: > > > On Sat, 15 Aug 1998, Simon Shapiro wrote: > > > > > >> Yup, we have... > > >> > > >> Create a file with date of 2017, theen ls -al it. > > ... > > > > Maybe I'm missing something, but it looks ok to me... > > > > Good news! You are right and I am wrong. I have a witness that, on > > current, I was right a week or two ago. > > So what was it you were seeing? Problems in ls -l that seemed to indicate that there was being concat'ed 19 somewhere instead of printing the correct century. However, this was on a single file, and we didn't do any more experimentation at that point. I'm planning to try to reproduce the condition, and see what kind of bug struck there. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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