On Tue, Oct 21, 1997 at 08:15:00PM -0700, Bruce Perens wrote: > I ran my system with the date in the year 2000 for a few weeks. I could not > find any problems. Unix was never so dumb as to store the century as two > digits. Richard Stallman and FSF have been testing this, too. > > The biggest problem that may happen has to do with the motherboard BIOS > and the PC clock chip on some systems storing the century as two > digits. The Linux program that reads the hardware clock into the > software clock can make up for that. An update of this program was > just released and will be well-deployed before it is needed.
One local trade newspaper or magazine recently ran a story on the Unix 2038 problem. Really getting in early here folks ... Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering. 3rd year, RMIT. http://hamish.home.ml.org/ (PGP key here) CPOM: [***** ] 56% The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. --Bohr -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
