This is what we were told when we had to test for it in June. I am
getting more and more indications that it is completely false but that is
what they told us. Normally I won't touch topics like Y2k because so much
of it is rubbish, but when a company such as ours, that bases everything
they do on FreeBSD, tells us that we need to verify that we have no
problems when rolling into 9/9/99 I assumed that it was fairly dependable.
James Nazarian
'71 B roadster
'74 BGT bastardization with big aluminum heart :)
'63 Buick 215 cubic inch 'heart'
On Thu, 9 Sep 1999, Scott Hower wrote:
>
> James,
>
> 9/9/99 == the end of Unix time?
>
> Stick to MGs my friend...
>
> (better yet, get yerself a Triumph ;-)
>
> --Scott
> (with my sincere apologies to the MG list... it is
> rubbish like this that causes I/T managers like
> myself much grief.)
>
>
> --- James Nazarian Jr <James.Nazarian@Colorado.EDU> wrote:
> > 9/9/99 is the end of Unix time. Unix has a counter
> > that counts seconds
> > since it was first started I don't know how many
> > years ago. on 9/9/99 the
> > size alloted for the counter will be filled and unix
> > will stop (assuming
> > it was never upgraded to fix this problem.
> >
> > James Nazarian
> > '71 B roadster
> > '74 BGT bastardization with big aluminum heart :)
> > '63 Buick 215 cubic inch 'heart'
> >
> > On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Dave Houser wrote:
> >
> > > Friends,
> > > As I sign off tonite, I'm reminded that my
> > birthday tomorrow has a
> > > special meaning in the old computer code leading
> > to possible Y2K probs.
> > > At 9/9/99, programs were scheduled to stop. Is
> > this so?
> > > Thanks goodness, there's no chips in my MGs.
> > > Cheers,
> > > Dave Houser
> > >
> >
> >
>
> ===
> Scott Hower -> howersl@yahoo.com
>
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