On Fri, 29 May 1998, Gary Nielson wrote:
> me clarify some of what I think I am hearing. Basically, I have an older
> Dell PC, 1993 vintage, that is not compliant. My understanding from my
Why do you think your PC is not compliant? As far as I know all PC-type
computers are compliant, within the limits of their application software,
of course.
> list/newsgroup readings is that Linux is itself as an OS 2000 compliant,
That's right, it is.
> clock setup, it will be 2000 compliant. My understanding is also that
> the issue remains about the compliance of a wide variety of applications
> available for Linux.
I tend to believe that the Y2K problem will not affect very much linux
software at all. The libc/glibc libraries all store dates as
seconds-since-the-epoch (1/1/70) so Linux will not run out of dates for
quite some time yet (until 2043, IIRC, which I usually don't). Hopefully
everything will be 64-bit by then. :) So any programs which use the
library functions for dates will be compliant. But programs which store
dates themselves may do it in the broken way, but I hope not since the
library functions are more efficient anyway. Another advantage to Linux
is that almost all the source is available, and actively developed to
boot. So the problems that plague the rest of the world with all the
"missing source" will not affect Linux.
But if you are running COBOL programs under the AS/400 emulator, watch
out! :)
> Bottom line: what if anything do I need to do to get myself compliant to
Nothing.
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