Re: Year 2000 & Debian
On Tue, Oct 21, 1997 at 08:15:00PM -0700, Bruce Perens wrote:
> 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.
One local trade newspaper or magazine recently ran a story on
the Unix 2038 problem. Really getting in early here folks ...
Hamish
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