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Date:      Wed, 10 Nov 1999 11:54:36 -0500
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com>
To:        patl@phoenix.volant.org, Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Ports Software Collection
Message-ID:  <19991110115436.05745@mojave.sitaranetworks.com>
In-Reply-To: <ML-3.4.942252405.5562.patl@asimov>; from patl@phoenix.volant.org on Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 08:46:45AM -0800
References:  <19991110172704.A19927@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <ML-3.4.942252405.5562.patl@asimov>

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On Wednesday, 10 November 1999 at  8:46:45 -0800, patl@phoenix.volant.org wrote:
> On 10-Nov-99 at 08:27, Christoph Kukulies (kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE)
> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 10, 1999 at 10:57:11AM -0500, Greg Lehey wrote:
>>> On Wednesday, 10 November 1999 at  9:39:14 -0600, Cheryl Offholter wrote:
>>>> Is it correct to assume that the FREEBSD PORTS SOFTWARE COLLECTION is
>>>> also completely compliant in addition to the operating system?
>>>> Please advise.
>>
>> It sounded that he meant "Y2K compliant". (must be some kind
>> of degraded jargon during the last 45 days of the millenium :-)
>
> You mean 'the last 45 days of the 1900s'; since we all know that
> 2000 is the last year of the 20th century and therefore the last
> year of the 2nd millenium, not the first year of the 3rd.  (I'm
> assuming that the readers of this list are somewhat more intelligent
> and informed than the general populace.  If we weren't, we'd be
> using Windows... :-)
>
> But this is drifting wildly off-topic...

While we're doing so, though, it's interesting to note that, even if
the Millenium were to end in 7 weeks time, this is *not* a "millenium
bug".  The same issue arose 100 years ago.  It's a century "bug": the
problem isn't the carry into the fourth place, it's the carry into the
third place.

Greg
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