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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)
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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.

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