Yawn Y2K

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Hi,

(Klaus: FAQ alert here).

On Mon, Apr 26, 1999 at 05:42:19PM +0100, Samuel Liddicott wrote:
> OK, I checked the FAQ and searched 1500 mailing list messages in my folders,
> and no current statement.
> 
> I am forced to find some comment from the authors about its year 2000
> capabilities.

Ohmyod...

> *I* know that probably never cares about date except internally (and even
> then maybe by accident); but I am forced to ask; maybe this should be on the
> FAQ?
> 
> Q: Any Y2K problems anicipated?

No.

> Q: What reasons for thinking there will be no problems?

Mgetty has no idea what a "date" might be.  All programs use date only for
logging, and even then, only mm/dd is used, no year in any form.  Time
stamps / time differences are done based on time() values, that is, seconds
since the epoch, so there is no calculation based on dates that could go
wrong.

Weird things might happen in 2038.


Klaus, could you please add this to the FAQ?

gert



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