From owner-freebsd-ports Tue Jun 20 14: 9:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from thehousleys.net (frenchknot.ne.mediaone.net [24.147.224.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 054B337BF87; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 14:09:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jim@thehousleys.net) Received: from thehousleys.net (baby.int.thehousleys.net. [192.168.0.24]) by thehousleys.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA17315; Tue, 20 Jun 2000 17:08:58 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jim@thehousleys.net) Message-ID: <394FDD6A.AC1CAD90@thehousleys.net> Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 17:08:58 -0400 From: James Housley Organization: The Housleys dot Net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alexander Langer Cc: Ade Lovett , Will Andrews , FreeBSD Ports Subject: Re: Y2K links References: <20000620160241.C32776@argon.gryphonsoft.com> <20000620151125.O6284@FreeBSD.org> <394FD415.ECF2D1DB@thehousleys.net> <20000620230333.A16966@cichlids.cichlids.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Alexander Langer wrote: > > Thus spake James Housley (jim@thehousleys.net): > > > Actually Y2038 or Y2070 would be better. > > What's up with 2070? > > Only because it's 100 years after the epoch? A lot of the early Y2K software made assumptions about 2-digit dates. date<70 being 20xx and greater than 70 being 19xx. That is all. Jim -- Unix is very user-friendly. It's just picky who its friends are. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message