Re: Year 2000 compliance
On Sat, Jul 25, 1998 at 09:17:51PM -0700, Alexander wrote:
> Any and all UNIX systems are fully Y2K compliant, as long as the hardware
I think this statement is naive. Although the kernel may represent
all time values as time_t, you cannot guarantee that all applications
do, and since there are rather a lot of them you can assume that
there are some which use other mechanisms. Anything that stores a string,
for example.
So Unix is by no means automatically Y2K-proof. Do you disagree?
Hamish
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