Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Y2k - Is Linux Ready for the year 2000? | Date | Tue, 06 Jan 1998 09:00:16 -0500 | From | Mike Wangsmo <> |
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On 05 Jan 1998 23:15:41 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>>>>>> "RJ" == Richard B Johnson <root@chaos.analogic.com> writes: > >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. > >RJ> Of course one could set the machine time and do a sample run, but >RJ> that would be too easy. > >Easy test as you said set the machine time, and do a sample run and be >suprised at how much breaks.
I did this several months ago with a RH4.2 machine. I let it run from 25DEC99 until around 10FEB00 and watched it for things that quit working. As far as I could gleen (although I was mostly concerend with logging events and logrotate), nothing broke. Maybe I missed something?????
Mike
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