Re: y2k compliance

1999-06-10 Thread Adrian Hey
On Wed 09 Jun, Jeff Dalton wrote: It's hard to see how this can really be a Y2K issue. Yes, but Y2K compliance (or lack of it) might well affect any fixes for this problem. The point is that you can't assume that Y2K is a non-issue for all compilers. Some do use date and time to modify

y2k compliance

1999-06-09 Thread Hugo Bouckaert
Hi I would like to know whether haskell compilers (hugs, hbc and lmlc) are fuly y2k compliant. Can anyone fill me in on this? Thanks Hugo -- Dr Hugo Bouckaert - Systems Administrator, Computer Science UWA Tel: +(61 8) 9380 2878 / Fax: +(61 8) 9380 1089 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Web:

Re: y2k compliance

1999-06-09 Thread Jerzy Karczmarczuk
Hugo Bouckaert wrote: I would like to know whether haskell compilers (hugs, hbc and lmlc) are fuly y2k compliant. Can anyone fill me in on this? ... and , if you are already here,... could somebody explain, please, what does it mean to have a compiler which is *NOT* y2k compliant, what is

Re: y2k compliance

1999-06-09 Thread Adrian Hey
On Wed 09 Jun, Jerzy Karczmarczuk wrote: ... and , if you are already here,... could somebody explain, please, what does it mean to have a compiler which is *NOT* y2k compliant, I have found that some compilers put the date and time of compilation in the resulting object files, so it is

RE: y2k compliance

1999-06-09 Thread Mark P Jones
, or legal resources that would be required to back it up. It must therefore be left to individuals or groups of users to determine an appropriate notion of y2k compliance for their own use, and to take responsibility for determining whether the appropriate systems meet those standards. We already