Thought this might be useful info for Craig et al. Nils
------- Forwarded Message Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1998 23:50:25 +0000 (WET) From: "Jose' Manuel Pereira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Kevin Dunstan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [email protected] Subject: Re: FVWM: Fvwm & Year 2000 In-Reply-To: Tak's message of <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Subj: Re: FVWM: Fvwm & Year 2000] References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Mailer: VM 6.59 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: "Jose' Manuel Pereira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Length: 2143 "Tak" == Tak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tak> Kevin Dunstan wrote: >> I have been trying to find information about fvwm and whether it is Year >> 2000 compliant but could find nothing on the web pages or the FAQ. Tak> In case it HASN'T been done, here's some pointers to neat tools and Tak> test planning guides. Tak> test planning and info: http://www.year2000.com/archive/testing.html Here I found the following: A Y2K Compliance Definition 1.For all dates in storage, the century is unambiguous. 2.All operations give consistent results whether dates in the data, or the current system date, are before or after the millennial New Year's Eve. 3.February 29, 2000 is properly recognized as a leap day. 4.All dates are properly and unambiguously recognized and presented on input and output interfaces (screens, reports, files, etc.). I found fvwm, fvwm2 to be "Y2K Compliant" by the above as: 1. Yes. Whatever. No storage of dates. Only X timestamps, which cannot be related to dates. 2. Yes. The same features and bugs will work correctly as designed. fvwm2 won't even know it's New Year's Eve, much less millennial. 3. ...And correctly handled with extreme indifference. 4. Never saw problems with dates in screens, reports, or files used, or generated by, fvwm/fvwm2. On second thought, I never saw dates in screens, reports, or files used, or generated by, fvwm/fvwm2. Don't even think it's possible. Fvwm is appallingly impervious to dates, in fact. Therefore, I hereby certificate the Y2K Compliance of FVWM and FVWM2. Tell them I said so. Now, could we please consider this "Fvwm & Year 2000" affair closed? - -- Jose' Pereira Tel. +351.1.841 9340 DEEC - Dep. of Electrical and Computer Engineering Fax. +351.1.841 7499 Instituto Superior Tecnico - Technical University of Lisboa Av. Rovisco Pais - 1049-001 Lisboa - Portugal - -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.hpc.uh.edu/fvwm/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------- End of Forwarded Message
