From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jan 13 19:17:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA28247 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 19:09:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA20408 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 1998 18:23:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA01560; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:53:27 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id MAA08614; Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:53:27 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from grog) Message-ID: <19980114125326.36911@lemis.com> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 1998 12:53:26 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: "tien@bisnews.co.th" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: year 2000 compliance References: <199801120433.LAA10472@mailhub.bisnews.co.th> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: <199801120433.LAA10472@mailhub.bisnews.co.th>; from tien@bisnews.co.th on Mon, Jan 12, 1998 at 11:35:43AM +0700 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Mon, Jan 12, 1998 at 11:35:43AM +0700, tien@bisnews.co.th wrote: > To whom it may concern; > I have questions regarding year 2000 compliance of FreeBSD > version 2.1.5. Is FreeBSD 2.1.5 year 2000 compliant? Well, FreeBSD 2.1.5 is obsolete, so it's not really relevant. The current version is 2.2.5, and by the end of the year we should all be running 3.0. But FreeBSD, like other versions of UNIX, has never had any problems with the year 2000. The fundamental timekeeping counts the number of seconds since the "Epoch", 0:0 UTC on 1 January 1970. This counter will overflow 31 bits some time in 2038 and 32 bits some time in 2106. We expect to be using larger word sizes by that time. > Do you have any document support on your compliance status? No. > Where could I get all the information about FreeBSD year 2000 > compliance? This should be all you need. There never have been any problems. Consider, however, that this relates to the operating system only. It's possible to write poorly designed applications on any platform, and we have no information about them. Greg