Re: NCSA Webserver
Yes, the NCSA webserver is year-2000 compliant, as is the rest of the
Debian system - with one known exception. There is a problem in that
many PCs only allow you to set the CMOS clock to a two-digit date. This
is a problem in the PC clock chip and the motherboard BIOS ROM rather
than in Debian. Debian reads this hardware clock once, at boot time,
and then runs its timekeeping in software until the system shuts down.
The "clock" program will be replaced with the newer "hwclock" program
in Debian 2.0, which addresses this problem. You have the source code
for "clock" now, and you can apply the (very trivial) fix if you wish.
Unix and Linux are for the most part not effected by the year-2000 problem.
They do have a problem approaching in the year 2036, when our 32-bit time
counter would overflow. Changing to a 64-bit variable for time will address
that problem for some millions of years, by which time something better
than Linux may come along :-)
Thanks
Bruce Perens
Debian Project Leader
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