Re: is the current version (4.2) year 2000 compliant?

[pepersb cuug ab ca (Brad Pepers)]

> On 09-Jul-97 Hugo van der Kooij wrote:
> >> as title
> >
> >What title?
> 
> I think he's refering to the subject ;)
> 
> AFAIK, the vast majority of RH 4.2 is year 2000 compliant (since Unix's
> longdate format (# of seconds since Jan. 1 1970 or so) doesn't run out for a
> few thousands years or so (isn't it about 4022?), a lot of apps are good for a
> while). I've heard something about CVS/RCS having some problems, but those may
> have been fixed by now.

Actually I think the date value is normally signed so its range is only
from 1902 to 2038 or something close to that...

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