Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 04:28:55 -0800 (PST) From: <julian@FreeBSD.org> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: ports/17070: @dts function in xspred, ss and sc fails for year 2000 Message-ID: <200002291228.EAA59096@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 17070
>Category: ports
>Synopsis: @dts function in xspred, ss and sc fails for year 2000
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-ports
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Tue Feb 29 04:30:02 PST 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Julian Elischer
>Release: FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386
>Organization:
none
>Environment:
FreeBSD 4.0
ports sc, ss and xspread (all related)
>Description:
grep in source for 1999. the "date to seconds" function
checks for year . 1999 and returns error. Since 2000 IS a leapyear
this can simply be replaced with 2038 or maybe even 2099
>How-To-Repeat:
use @dts(2000, 1, 1)
>Fix:
remove bogus check for 1999 and replace with 2099 (interp.c)
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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