I ran my system with the date in the year 2000 for a few weeks. I could not find any problems. Unix was never so dumb as to store the century as two digits. Richard Stallman and FSF have been testing this, too.
The biggest problem that may happen has to do with the motherboard BIOS and the PC clock chip on some systems storing the century as two digits. The Linux program that reads the hardware clock into the software clock can make up for that. An update of this program was just released and will be well-deployed before it is needed. Thanks Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .