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Date:      Tue, 9 Jul 96 11:13:47 +0200
From:      cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer)
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Handling time after 1999
Message-ID:  <9607090913.AA17169@wavehh.hanse.de>
References:  <Pine.BSD.3.93.960708085242.80A-100000@lcurtis.intecom.com> <199607081608.AA066302128@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at>

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>> I have been asked to look into what other unix kernel groups are planning
>> to do to address problems with time when the year 2000 arrives.

>Most probably nothing.

About 1 or 2 moths ago a number of fixes for "standard" tools were
commited to NetBSD. Most of them used time_t, but introduced bugs when
reading and write time values. It might be worth looking at for
FreeBSD's equivalents.

Martin
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