Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 4 Feb 2000 18:08:16 +0000 Received: (qmail 27234 invoked from network); 4 Feb 2000 18:08:15 -0000 Received: from mail12.svr.pol.co.uk (195.92.193.215) by master.debian.org with SMTP; 4 Feb 2000 18:08:15 -0000 Received: from modem-40.armenelos.dialup.pol.co.uk ([62.136.125.40] helo=wyvern) by mail12.svr.pol.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.13 #0) id 12Gn9R-0003HP-00 for submit@bugs.debian.org; Fri, 04 Feb 2000 18:08:13 +0000 Received: from bridgett by wyvern with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 12G6kI-0001RP-00; Wed, 02 Feb 2000 20:51:26 +0000 Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 20:51:26 +0000 From: Adrian Bridgett To: submit@bugs.debian.org Subject: shellutils: year 2038 bug Message-ID: <20000202205126.A5536@wyvern> Reply-To: adrian.bridgett@iname.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/1.0.1i Package: shellutils Version: 2.0-4 Severity: wishlist [a program of mine is converting 2 digit dates to four digit dates by prepending the first two chars of the current year to it. I ran it on an old email] ~$ date --date "12/15/2037" Tue Dec 15 00:00:00 GMT 2037 ~$ date --date "12/15/2038" date: invalid date 12/15/2038' Ugh! I think wishlist is fairly appropriate :-) Adrian email: adrian.bridgett@iname.com, http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett Windows NT - Unix in beta-testing. PGP key available on public key servers Debian GNU/Linux -*- because I'm allergic to Prozac -*- www.debian.org