Yawn Y2K

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Thanks for you comments all; entirely as suspected.

[I know I expect to be using sendfax in 2040 and beyond, but maybe on
hyper-linux 222.23 128 processor version, and I'm sure the time structure
will be bigger by then and it will still all work.

Then again I might use ibcs and still be running old fashioned plain old
(g)libc elf executables instead of glibnomehome++c++.aaa
]

*cough*

Sam

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gert Doering [mailto:gert@greenie.muc.de]
> Sent: 26 April 1999 19:31
> To: Samuel Liddicott; mgetty@muc.de
> Subject: Re: Yawn Y2K
>
>
> 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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