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Update the list of known Y2K issues.

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PR:		16484
Submitted by:	Stephen J. Roznowski <sjr@home.com>
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Jim Mock 2000-02-14 21:29:03 +00:00
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN" [
<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/y2kbug.sgml,v 1.33 1999/11/12 21:55:52 jim Exp $">
<!ENTITY date "$FreeBSD: www/en/y2kbug.sgml,v 1.34 1999/12/12 16:24:03 jhb Exp $">
<!ENTITY title 'Year 2000 Compatibility (aka "Millennium Bug")'>
<!ENTITY % includes SYSTEM "includes.sgml"> %includes;
]>
<!-- $FreeBSD: www/en/y2kbug.sgml,v 1.33 1999/11/12 21:55:52 jim Exp $ -->
<!-- $FreeBSD: www/en/y2kbug.sgml,v 1.34 1999/12/12 16:24:03 jhb Exp $ -->
<html>
&header;
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<dd>Chpass has a problem using 00 for expiration year.
</dd>
<dt><a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=15852">bin/15852</a> and
<a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=16045">gnu/16045</a> and
<a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=16207">bin/16207</a>
</dt>
<dd>Groff predefined \*(DT [\*(td] string has Y2K bug. [Fixed with import of
version 1.15 2000/01/12]
</dd>
<dt><a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=15872">bin/15872</a></dt>
<dd>at(1) has a problem with valid time specifications if tm_year is 100,
reports `garbled time'.
</dd>
<dt><a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=16238">misc/16238</a></dt>
<dd>KerberosIV install does not work properly because there is a hard-wired
expiration date of 12/31/99 in the Kerberos source for the ticket
granter. [Fixed v1.24 1999/09/19]
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>Problematic applications</h2>
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<dd>The slurp port has a problem generating a correctly formatted host file
name when tm_year is greater than 100. [Port patched 1999/10/27; fixes
in FreeBSD-3.3-STABLE and above]</dd>
<dt><a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=15477">ports/15477</a></dt>
<dd>wwwstat port has a hardcoded 19.
</dd>
<dt><a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=15789">ports/15789</a></dt>
<dd>proftpd has a minor Y2K problem. [Port patched 1999/12/22]
</dd>
<dt><a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=15820">ports/15820</a></dt>
<dd>sendfile has a problem not setting the atime and mtime properly
for files sent after year 1999.
</dd>
<dt><a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=15854">ports/15854</a></dt>
<dd>dclock uses localtime and in particular the references to
tm_year do not take into account the year 2000. [Port patched 2000/01/04]
</dd>
<dt><a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=15868">ports/15868</a></dt>
<dd>The reporting function of hylafax (xferstats) is not y2k compatible.
[Port patched 2000/01/24]
</dd>
<dt><a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=15926">ports/15926</a></dt>
<dd>A y2k bug in leafnode+ 2.9 considers incoming news articles with the
(arguably bogus) Date: header like `Wed, 05 Jan 00 15:01:40 GMT'
to be too old, so these incoming articles are dropped. [Fixed by upgrading
port to version 2.10 2000/01/24]
</dd>
<dt><a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=16062">ports/16062</a></dt>
<dd>Japanese e2ps port has hardcoded 19. [Port patched 2000/01/24]
</dd>
<dt><a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=16073">ports/16073</a></dt>
<dd>nntp port 1.5.11.5 has Y2K related problems.
[Port upgraded to version 1.5.12.2 2000/01/12]
</dd>
<dt><a
href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=16167">ports/16167</a></dt>
<dd>This is a bug-fix release that corrects a y2k bug in INN 2.2.1 that will show
up in the NEWNEWS and NEWGROUPS commands after 2000-01-01 00:00:00 when
the date specified to the command is before 2000-01-01 00:00:00.
[Port upgraded to version 2.2.2 2000/01/28]
</dd>
<dd>NetHack 3.2.2 and earlier versions are not Y2K compliant (the score file
used 2 digit years and will be corrupted if added to in the year 2000).
[Port updated to version 3.2.3 2000/01/05]
</dd>
<dd>Japanese mnews port has Y2K problems.
[Port updated to version 1.22 1999/12/26]
</dd>
</dl>
<h2>More information</h2>