Re: Y2k - Is Linux Ready for the year 2000?

Alexander Kjeldaas (astor@guardian.no)
Tue, 6 Jan 1998 00:15:43 +0100 (MET)


On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Jason Wilkins wrote:

> I need documentation concerning Linux's year 2000 compliancy, can anyone
> point me to it?
>

I think someone wanted to start a mailinglist on this but I'm not sure
what happened. I remember checking out some of the bugfixes that were done
to solaris and at that time (1/2 year ago) linux had the same problems (I
think it was strptime in libc).

A quick check in the source-code of glibc-2.0.5 reveales that it has the
X/Open fixes to strptime. date (from sh-utils 1.12) and touch (from
fileutils-3.13) are also safe from the problems mentioned by X/Open.

astor

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