Re: Year 2000 & Debian

[bruce@pixar.com (Bruce Perens)]

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.

	Thanks

	Bruce
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