Date: Thu, 09 Jan 1997 07:46:48 +1100 From: Giles Lean <giles@nemeton.com.au> To: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Year 2000 time change(Format support) Message-ID: <199701082046.HAA26798@nemeton.com.au> In-Reply-To: <199701081022.CAA25400@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Wed, 8 Jan 1997 21:22:29 +1100 (EDT) Darren Reed wrote:
> Are there any cases where software calculates a year that is in the range
> 0-99 and then adds that to 1900 ?
Probably.
I would worry too about software (like query-pr --sql) which takes
perfectly good four digit dates and strips the leading two digits.
While not in itself a problem, it makes using the output harder,
particularly if you want to sort it.
> Or any that displays 19%d ?
Looks like it; see below. (I haven't really followed these up.)
I would't worry too much about sccs2rcs.csh -- it isn't safe to use
anyway. That RCS doesn't look safe is concerning -- we probably need
to fix this.
./src/contrib/cvs/contrib/sccs2rcs.csh: set date = `sccs prs -r$rev $file | grep "^D " | awk '{printf("19%s %s", $3, $4); exit}'`
./src/gnu/usr.bin/rcs/lib/rcstime.c: "19%.*s/%.2s/%.2s %.2s:%.2s:%s"
./src/usr.bin/yacc/test/ftp.tab.c: "19%02d%02d%02d%02d%02d%02d",
./src/usr.bin/yacc/test/ftp.y: "19%02d%02d%02d%02d%02d%02d",
./src/usr.sbin/xntpd/parse/clk_trimtsip.c: printf("sv6+ software: %d.%d (19%d/%d/%d)\n",
Giles
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