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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news-peer.gsl.net!news-dc.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news From: John Lucas <jlucas@jnet.vi> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Year 2000 problem? Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 09:23:00 -0400 Organization: University of the Virgin Islands Lines: 9 Message-ID: <3365F634.794BDF32@jnet.vi> NNTP-Posting-Host: goby.uvi.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) Cache-Post-Path: mama.uvi.edu!unknown@lazlo.uvi.edu Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39922 What happens to FreeBSD hosts on Jan 1, 2000? I notice the "date" command uses a two-digit year field to set the time, what about internal data structures and other time/date utilities? Should we be worried? -- | John Lucas jlucas@jnet.vi | | Information Technology NIC Handle: JL423 | | University of the Virgin Islands (809) 693-1216 | | St. Thomas, VI 00802 http://www.jnet.vi/jlucas.html |