Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 15:35:59 +0400 (MSD) From: Ilya Varlashkin <ilya@ripn.net> To: ludwigp@bigfoot.com (Ludwig Pummer) Cc: chad@rez.com, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Year 2000 Message-ID: <199904231136.PAA44330@diamond.ripn.net> In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990419154056.00b88920@mail-r> from Ludwig Pummer at "Apr 19, 1999 3:41:31 pm"
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According to Ludwig Pummer: > At 02:20 PM 4/19/99 , Chad R. Larson wrote: > >... But it did make me wonder if the FreeBSD organization, > >or any of y'all out there have so done (and if so, what the outcome > >was). I'd expect sore spots in the locale stuff, perhaps in process > >accounting. > > http://www.freebsd.org/y2kbug.html > Ok, just look: "After extensive analysis and testing, we believe that FreeBSD is 100% Y2K compliant...." (from that page) But what about struct tm from /usr/include/time.h: int tm_year; /* years since 1900 */ So I suppose asctime(3), localtime(3) and gmtime(3) are not Y2K-compliant, are they? Applications that blindly rely on Y2K-compliant OS will operate wrong year value. Did I missed something? -- Ilya Varlashkin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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