[DGD] Re: DGD Y2K proof?

[Serhat Sakarya]

On Sun, 31 May 1998 harte at xs4all.nl wrote:

> Quoting your message from 31 May:

> | Is dgd (and you could extend it to other drivers and mudlibs too) year 200
> | proof?
> 1. The time() kfun screws up when the year 2000 starts.
> 
>    This entirely depends on your operating system and/or hardware.
> 
>    I have no idea if W95 or NT are Y2K-compliant, but any unix that I
>    know will function quite happily until at least January 19 04:14:07
>    of the year 2038, and I assume that by then most of them will have
>    been upgraded to versions that use more data to store the number
>    of seconds passed since 1970.

Heh, yeah.. wouldn't it be ridiculous if people didn't take action in
time in order to prevent such problems from occurring? (cough)

You might be interested in the newsgroup comp.software.year-2000, btw.


Regards,

Serhat




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