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Mention a few problem reports that pertain to the millenium bug.

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PR:		5797
Submitted by:	Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk>
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1999 to 2000, and that it correctly interprets the year 2000 as a leap
year.</p>
<h2>Fixed problems</h2>
<p>The following Y2K problems have been identified and fixed in
FreeBSD.</p>
<dl>
<dt><a
href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=1380">misc/1380</a></dt>
<dd>Several programs have a hardcoded 19%d in responses for the year.
Affected programs include: yacc, ftpd, and make.</dd>
<dt><a
href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=1382">conf/1382</a></dt>
<dd>The sed script in /etc/rc.local that builds the host/kernel ID line
for the message of the day relies on the year not going past
1999.</dd>
<dt><a
href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3465">misc/3465</a></dt>
<dd>The etc/namedb/make-localhost command generates the DNS serial
number as YYMMDD. In the year 2000, this will be generated as
1YYMMDD.</dd>
<dt><a
href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=4930">gnu/4930</a></dt>
<dd>groff tmac macros have hardcoded 19 for generating some dates.</dd>
</dl>
<h2>Problematic applications</h2>
<p>This section is currently a placeholder. As we become aware of

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<!ENTITY date "$Date: 1998-02-12 04:52:30 $">
<!ENTITY date "$Date: 1998-02-20 17:27:10 $">
<!ENTITY title 'Year 2000 bug (aka "Millennium bug")'>
<!ENTITY % includes SYSTEM "includes.sgml"> %includes;
]>
<!-- $Id: y2kbug.sgml,v 1.2 1998-02-12 04:52:30 hoek Exp $ -->
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1999 to 2000, and that it correctly interprets the year 2000 as a leap
year.</p>
<h2>Fixed problems</h2>
<p>The following Y2K problems have been identified and fixed in
FreeBSD.</p>
<dl>
<dt><a
href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=1380">misc/1380</a></dt>
<dd>Several programs have a hardcoded 19%d in responses for the year.
Affected programs include: yacc, ftpd, and make.</dd>
<dt><a
href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=1382">conf/1382</a></dt>
<dd>The sed script in /etc/rc.local that builds the host/kernel ID line
for the message of the day relies on the year not going past
1999.</dd>
<dt><a
href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3465">misc/3465</a></dt>
<dd>The etc/namedb/make-localhost command generates the DNS serial
number as YYMMDD. In the year 2000, this will be generated as
1YYMMDD.</dd>
<dt><a
href="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=4930">gnu/4930</a></dt>
<dd>groff tmac macros have hardcoded 19 for generating some dates.</dd>
</dl>
<h2>Problematic applications</h2>
<p>This section is currently a placeholder. As we become aware of