On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> 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.
On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Tabor J. Wells wrote:
> 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.
Somebody (in Holland ISTR) did do a mini-"audit" on Exim and agreed that
it was compliant. I thought I had saved the message, but I cannot at the
moment lay my hands on it. Anyway, I have merged the suggestions above
and put the following paragraph at the top of the README file, where it
will appear in some future release (not the next alpha, 'cause I've
just built that today for imminent release).
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The author of Exim believes that it is Y2K-compliant, as long as the
underlying operating system and C library are. Exim does not parse dates or
times at all. Internally, it makes some use of binary timestamps in Unix format
(number of seconds since 1-Jan-1970) and uses C library services to convert
these to printing forms (e.g. for logging). The printing forms all use 4-digit
years.
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