On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 04:02:00PM +0100,
Nigel Metheringham <Nigel.Metheringham@???> is thought to have said:
> Hype mongers of the world unite....!
>
> I am starting to get people writing to me (personally) asking about Y2K
> compliance of exim. I guess that we need to find something harmless and
> non-committal to shove in docs and on websites.
>
> Here is my last comment on the matter - do people (I guess I particularly
> mean Philip) agree with this:-
> The whole thing is a non-issue for exim. Exim does not parse dates.
> It makes some use internally of unix format dates (seconds count since
> 1/1/1970) and uses OS/C-library services to present those in readable
> form.
>
> However you probably do need to system test it since things are rather
> more dependent on your hardware, OS, compiler and supporting libraries.
>
> Anything more diplomatic would be helpful. However if I hear another
> scare story telling me that even my light bulbs need Y2K auditing (and all
> for only.... just sign on the dotted line and hand over the cash... gold
> bullion preferred since we don't think the banking system will survive)
>
> Nigel.
I dunno. That sounds sufficient to me. Here's the doc from the amanda
backup package which says basically the same thing:
The amanda developers believe Amanda is Y2K-compliant, as long as the
underlying operating system and C library are. The only date
manipulations performed by Amanda use C-language time manipulation
functions and/or strings where years are represented with the
century-included notation.
Tabor
Shore.Net
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