Re: Y2K fix for emacs19(potato/slink) and emacs20(slink)

[kitame@northeye.org (Takuo KITAME / 北目 拓郎)]

>>>>> On Wed, 29 Dec 1999 09:52:22 -0700 (MST)
>>>>> "RM" == Rick Macdonald <rickmacd@home.com> wrote...

RM> On 29 Dec 1999, Takuo KITAME wrote:
>> I think that emacs19 19.34(potato/slink) and emacs20 20.3(slink) has the y2k 
>> problem in lisp/timezone.el.
>> Are package maintainer or anybody working for fix this? or already fixed?
>> 
>> Here is the fixed timezone.el.
>> http://master.debian.org/~kitame/tmp/timezone.el
>> (Thanks TSUCHIYA Masatoshi <tsuchiya@pine.kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp> !!) 

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"]

    ;; then wrong ( before Emacs-20.4  )
    -> ["1900" "1" "1" "07:00:00" "JST"]

Note:
 If you have installed apel-10.0, y2k problem has been fixed with apel's 
 timezone.el.

Regards.
-- 
Takuo KITAME
  kitame@northeye.org