Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 13:24:57 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: peter@clari.net.au Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Y2K & tm_struct Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980225132321.27909S-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199802241344.AAA01793@rhiannon.clari.net.au>
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On Wed, 25 Feb 1998 peter@clari.net.au wrote: > Please email any responses > > As I understand it, tm_year == year-1900 so the year 2000 will be 100. > isn't this going to get rather confusing every time we do a "touch" > or whatever? wouldn't it be better to have a superset-definition such as: > > year-1900 (year<1900) > year (year>1900) Try touching a file to a date before 1970 and remember that ints blow up in 2038. 2 digit years are OK. See touch(1). Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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