27 Jun
2001
27 Jun
'01
5:21 a.m.
John Allain wrote:
The only one I actually ran into in 2000 was Unix date codes that looked
like '19100'. I also got as 2 digit code of '10' as the program grabbed
the third and
fourth characters of '19100'.
Unix has a time structure where it reurns the number of years since
1900. If programmed
losely with the assumption of 1900 years one can get into trouble as
outlined above. The
two fixes took only a few minutes to fix.
IBM came out
with PC-DOS 7.0 (now renamed PC-DOS 2000).
They made it y2k compliant and all that.
What are some of the symptoms of y2K incompliancy?
I have been setting old machines (1994 -> before)
to
current dates and have been getting no trouble, at least
as far as I could tell.
Yes, I believe MS-DOS and Mac OS didn't have the Unix-related time
issue.
Eric
John A.