Evans & Sutherland Y2K scrapyard heads-up

From: Pete Turnbull <pete_at_dunnington.u-net.com>
Date: Mon Dec 21 21:02:55 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.

-- 
Pete						Peter Turnbull
						Dept. of Computer Science
						University of York

Received on Mon Dec 21 1998 - 21:02:55 GMT