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From: John Lucas <jlucas@jnet.vi>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Year 2000 problem?
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 09:23:00 -0400
Organization: University of the Virgin Islands
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What happens to FreeBSD hosts on Jan 1, 2000? I notice the "date"
command uses a two-digit year field to set the time, what about internal
data structures and other time/date utilities? Should we be worried?

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