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SubjectRe: Y2k - Is Linux Ready for the year 2000?
On 5 Jan 1998, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> RJ> The problems, if they exist at all, are in __applications__ code! It is
> RJ> very difficult to make application code using the 'C' runtime library,
> RJ> that would not work beyond the year 2000. The year 2000 means nothing
> RJ> special to Unix machines.
>
> Wrong. date at least the old one I have will die in the year 2000.

I've seen old versions of date (probably from slackware 2.2 or earlier)
that have problems with Y2k. Any app that assumes 19?? or only cares
about the last 2 digits of year may do strange things. I can't imagine
the kernel having Y2k problems though...so this topic needs to move to a
more appropriate list.

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