Article View: alt.folklore.computers
Article #14121st centuary dates (was Re: FORTRAN Greetings)
From: and... Andrew Dingwall
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1989 12:26
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 1989 12:26
20 lines
1421 bytes
1421 bytes
In article <qtlnvv@unify.uucp> dgh@unify.UUCP (David Harrington) writes: > [stuff deleted] >This reminds me: remember in the 60's and 70's when we realized that, yes, >Virginia, the 20th century WILL give way to the 21st, and EVERY DATE ROUTINE >EVER WRITTEN WILL FAIL? A colleague of mine was working with an X/OPEN conformant NLS (National Language Support) library implementaion sold by a major hardware manufacturer. The NLS was being run on a machine that, because of a fault with the RTC, often booted with a system date well into the next centuary. When ls -l had been modified to print dates and times using NLS routines, yes, the 21st centuary years printed as 19100, 19101 etc. andrew -- Andrew Dingwall UniSoft Ltd., Saunderson House, Hayne Street, London EC1A 9HH and...@root.co.uk ..!mcvax!ukc!root44!andrew +44-1-315-6600 FAX:+44-1-315-6622
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<1069@root44.co.uk>Path:
mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!ukc!stl!stc!root44!andrewReferences:
<1923@paperboy.OSF.ORG> <qtlnvv@unify.uucp>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!ukc!stl!stc!root44!andrew From: and...@root.co.uk (Andrew Dingwall) Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers Subject: 21st centuary dates (was Re: FORTRAN Greetings) Message-ID: <1069@root44.co.uk> Date: 15 Dec 89 12:26:44 GMT References: <1923@paperboy.OSF.ORG> <qtlnvv@unify.uucp> Reply-To: and...@root.co.uk (Andrew Dingwall) Organization: UniSoft Ltd, London, England Lines: 20 Posted: Fri Dec 15 13:26:44 1989 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit