Re: Y2K fix for emacs19(potato/slink) and emacs20(slink)
On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Takuo KITAME / [ISO-2022-JP] 北目 [ISO-2022-JP] 拓郎 wrote:
> CR> kitame@northeye.org (Takuo KITAME) writes:
> RM> I'm running emacs 19.34, compiled back in Sep 1996, on Linux, Solaris and
> RM> IRIX64. I haven't found a definitive answer as to whether or not it has
> RM> Y2K problems.
> >>
> RM> Does anybody know if timezone.el is the only problem?
> >>
> >> for example, please try following code.
> >>
> >> % emacs19 -no-site-file -q
> >>
> >> (progn
> >> (require 'timezone)
> >> (timezone-parse-date "Sat, 1 Jan 00 07:00:00 JST"))
> >>
> >>
> >> ;; then right ( Emacs-20.5 or XEmacs )
> -> ["2000" "1" "1" "07:00:00" "JST"]
>
> CR> Why is this right?
>
> CR> Well, it is neither right nor wrong. It's very nonsense to write the
> CR> year 2000 as the two digits, "00".
>
> Humm.. it's ad-hoc fix...
> Just modified MIN(1900 to 1970) and MAX(1999 to 2069) of year.
>
> I think that it is nonsense but better than "00 is 1900".
Yes, but are there any other Emacs Y2K issues?
...RickM...
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