Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 Dec 1998 09:02:32 +0100 (CET) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: Y2k compliance |
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On Mon, 30 Nov 1998, Linux Lists wrote:
> Quick question: since which version has Linux been Y2k-compliant?
Linux is not a single large bulky package so I cannot really provide a sensible answer to this question.
I can tell you, however, that the kernel has been compliant for 5 or 6 years now (maybe longer, but I suspect the iso9660 weirdness wasn't worked around back then) and the C library has been fully compliant for about 2 years.
There are some obscure bugs in libc version 4, but I suspect they won't even show up under 'normal' use.
Linux (and other Unices) use a 32-bit number for time. The number denotes the number of seconds (signed) since the start of 1970 -- this number won't overflow until february 2038, at which time we will all have switched to 64-bit numbers which will remain valid for about 1200 times the life expectancy of the universe. This, of course, is when you take a very optimist approach of the universes life expectancy :))
cheers,
Rik -- no braindead Y2K stuff for me... +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Linux memory management tour guide. H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl | | Scouting Vries cubscout leader. http://www.phys.uu.nl/~riel/ | +-------------------------------------------------------------------+
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