Re: Mailling list (digest) Y2k Issue

Rafael E. Herrera (raffo@neuronet.pitt.edu)
Tue, 04 Jan 2000 16:08:43 -0500


> Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2000 17:50:12 -0500
> From: <thanatos@hoodlum.org>
>
> >From the headers of the digest:
>
> linux-kernel-digest Monday, 3 January 19100 Volume 01 : Number 5003
>

We have run into a similar bug here. The code generating the date is
appending the "number of years since 1900" to "19". The code may be
using the tm structure from time.h -- see localtime(3) -- as it happened
here. It should be simple to fix.

-- 
Rafael Herrera
Laboratory for Computational Neuroscience
University of Pittsburgh
http://www.neuronet.pitt.edu/~raffo

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