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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN" [
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<!ENTITY date "$Date: 1998-02-08 23:16:43 $">
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<!ENTITY title 'Year 2000 bug (aka "Millennium bug")'>
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<!ENTITY % includes SYSTEM "includes.sgml"> %includes;
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]>
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<!-- $Id: y2kbug.sgml,v 1.1 1998-02-08 23:16:43 steve Exp $ -->
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<html>
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&header;
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<p>As management understanding of the Year 2000 problem (aka, "The
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Millennium Bug") increases, more and more companies are demanding
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official statements from the vendors of their hardware and software
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as to how their product will handle the year 2000 date rollover.</p>
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<p>The current FreeBSD statement is as follows:</p>
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<blockquote><big>"We believe, but cannot guarantee, that FreeBSD is Y2K
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compliant. We have spent a significant amount of time verifying
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this to be the case, but it is possible that something may have been
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overlooked. If a Y2K bug is found in the future, we will attempt to
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fix it as soon as possible."</big></blockquote>
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<p align="right"><b>David Greenamn, Principal Architect, The
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FreeBSD project</b></p>
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<h2>More information</h2>
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<p><i>(This section based on the text from the <a
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href="http://www.linux.org.uk/mbug.html">Linux Y2K compliance
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page</a>)</i></p>
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<p>As with all Unix and Unixlike operating systems, time and dates in
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FreeBSD are represented internally as the number of seconds since the
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1st of January 1970 (the Unix "epoch"). Currently, that figure is stored
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as a 32 bit integer, and will run out part way through 2038. By then we
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should (hopefully) be using a counter of 64 bits (or greater) which
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should be good until the end of the universe.</p>
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<p>Note that the OS being Y2K compliant will not fix errant
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applications that are not Y2K compliant.</p>
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<p>Note also that the OS expects to read the current date and time from
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the CMOS clock of your computer. Not all of these devices correctly
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handle the year 2000. You are advised to test each platform individually
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to ensure that your hardware clock behaves correctly when going from
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1999 to 2000, and that it correctly interprets the year 2000 as a leap
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year.</p>
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<h2>Problematic applications</h2>
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<p>This section is currently a placeholder. As we become aware of
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applications that have a Y2K problem we will note them here, and also
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attempt to indicate which versions (if any) of the software are
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fixed.</p>
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<h2>More information?</h2>
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<p>If you have further questions about FreeBSD's year 2000 compliance, or
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you have discovered an application running under FreeBSD that is not Y2K
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compliant, please contact the project at <a
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href="mailto:freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG">freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG</a>.</p>
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&footer;
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</body>
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</html>
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