Evans & Sutherland Y2K scrapyard heads-up - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

21 Dec 1998

On Dec 21, 21:51, Sean 'Captain Napalm' Conner wrote:

...
    Um, IRIX is a Unix derivative, right?  What about
IRIX ISN'T Y2K
 compliant?  2038 compliant, I can see, but 2000?  Do these companies go out
...
  fo their way to make stuff non-Y2k compilant? 
Lots of things in many Unix versions are potentially non-Y2K compliant --
anything that handles date input/output in ASCII could be, or anything that
depends on a RTC chip that only stores the year as two digits.  Common
culprits are at(1) and date(1) but SGI have a list of issues on one of
their support pages, as do Sun and some other vendors.

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Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York