[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) writes: > If you can do so, please try running your system with the date in the year > 2000 for a while. Richard Stallman asked if we had tested that GNU software > is free of year-2000 problems, and I think it's a good idea. Fortunately > we don't have too many COBOL programs :-) .
Seriously, someone grab a copy of the Packages file for the alpha dist---all of those programs have run with the year past 2000 for several weeks on my AXP box. It comprises almost all of the GNU utils---or most of the fairly mainstream ones. You see, the standard clock executable didn't know about the fact that the firmware kept the time based from 1980... Mike. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
