Re: The freeze, Nethack, and Y2K compliance

[Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org>]

>>>>> "Marcus" == Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:

    Ben> I maintain the nethack package, and as many folks are aware,
    Ben> it's not Y2K-compliant (uses %2d for the year in the log
    Ben> files).

    Marcus> Are the log files of nethack evaluated by any program? In
    Marcus> other words, what breaks if it starts to wrap around? If
    Marcus> only human read this, there is not a problem.

Only Nethack evaluates them (and possibly any external log
parser programs that I don't know about).. I haven't actually
tested all the effects of the wraparound..

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