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Re: Y2K simulation

Jay Thorne
Fri, 16 Oct 1998 14:34:16 +0000


wrote:
>
> On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Richard Pitt wrote:
> ****
> No problem with PINE.
>
> > So, tell me how it feels to be the first person with a system about to self
> > destruct on Dec 31, 1999
>
> Nah, just curious - don't expect much problem with linux but if there's a
> problem with any apps we'll have to have it fixed before everyone else, of
> course. I do have a win95 partition but I hardly ever boot it anymore.
>
> > Are you just testing your machine? or are you testing all of ours too????
> >
> > VVVVVVV
> > At 07:05 PM 12/31/99 -0800,
wrote:
>
> Oh yeah... that's Eudora, eh? But 01/01/00 doesn't really matter if they
> deal with it properly internally, eh? If I start screwing things up for people,
> I'll desist. If your INBOX is sorted by date is it the simulated sent date
> or the recieved? If it's the simulated date and it sorts old, you have
> a problem, I guess. But it looks like pine sorts by recieved.
>
> Oops here we go - Happy Simulated New Year. Time to go poking around my
> desktop... looks ok so far.
>
> Here's a confused environment canada webpage:
> http://weatheroffice.com/scripts/generator.pl?Alert_WLT
>
> "Your Time: Sat, 01 Jan 19100 | UTC Time: Fri, 01 Jan 19-1800"
>
> How do they get "Your Time" - from Netscape or what? Since it seems
> confused in a different way with Your Time and UTC Time could Netscape have
> a Y2K bug here? Anyone suggest a little javascript or something to test it?
> Or maybe it's a javascript bug, I know nothing about js but looking at their
> script I see:
>
> localYear = local.getYear()
>
> Is that a builtin function or what?
>
> Then they get their string with
> ... "19" + localYear ... and
> ... "19" + UTCDate.getYear() ...

Not a bug, per se, javascript is documented to do that. You just need to do
1900 + Number(UTCDate.getYear())

>
> Any other test suggestions? For linux apps, I mean - don't want to get way
> off topic.
>
> Oh, here we go - first linux app problem is with FileRunner or maybe tcl-tk.
> Touched a file and got:
> VVV
> y2k.test 0 1000101 02:48:41 rw-r--r-- root/root
>
> Murphy
>
> Y2k simulation in progress... all systems nominal.
> ---broken: FileRunner

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