Re: Y2K

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 19 Jun 1998 14:13:16 +0100 (BST)

> Neither the kernel nor the C runtime library cares anything about
> the year 2000. It is just a number presented for humans to read as
> the internal time is parsed into ss:mm:hh:mm:dd:yyyy, etc.

Bzzzt. Libc4 had several problems with ctime() turning 2000 into 100.
Libc5 seems fine. See http://www.linux.org.uk/mbug.html

> Problems will occur at (I think I remember) the year 2054 because

2038

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