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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.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-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!sprint!europa.clark.net!newsfeed2!news.easystreet.com!not-for-mail From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@portsoft.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Year 2000 problem? Date: 29 Apr 1997 19:28:34 GMT Organization: Portland Software Lines: 24 Message-ID: <01bc54d3$9d98ca00$6601a8c0@teds.portsoft.com> References: <3365F634.794BDF32@jnet.vi> <5k52ha$2nr@lace.colorado.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: mail.portsoft.com X-Newsreader: Microsoft Internet News 4.70.1155 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:40059 Frank Crary <fcrary@rintintin.Colorado.EDU> wrote in article <5k52ha$2nr@lace.colorado.edu>... > In article <3365F634.794BDF32@jnet.vi>, John Lucas <jlucas@jnet.vi> wrote: > >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? > > FreeBSD and other Unix platforms shouldn't have any serious problems > on 1 JAN 00. Some utilities may display, or even use, a two-digit > number for the year, but the operating system itself does not. The > time used internally by the operating system is seconds since 1 JAN 1970, > 00:00 (Universal time, I think.) > > Frank Crary > CU Boulder Although, I think it's stored as a 32-bit integer, so somewheres around 2032 I think we will get hosed.