On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Robert Dominguez wrote: > I am Robert Dominguez. My company uses Debian GNU Linux 1.3 > running a DNS server. The OS works fine with no bugs. My question > is, is this version compliant with Y2K. I really don't see how it's > directly affected but I had to ask. If you have a white paper in it, > please let me know where I can find it. Any information and help > would be greatly appreciated.
The simple answer to this question is yes. The longer one goes into the way dates are stored in systems and points out that while the OS is compliant many apps and hardware may not be, but to summarize this I will just say that it is the nature of unix systems to store dates as a series of integers which note day, month, year(in 4 digits) and time ... the way that the year is handled means that there will be no problem on 1/1/2000. However I am unsure as to the situation that will occur on linux systems on 29/2/2000, not know the algorith being used to do leapyear calculations. Nikolai
