Hi,
> I've looked all over blackdown.org for a y2k statement, but
> I've found none. Any of you know if there are any y2k issues with
> the blackdown ports? (specifically jdk117_v1a).
I'm not a member of the porting team, but I can tell you what I think they
would tell you. The JDK, like almost any reasonable piece of software,
relies on the system libraries for dealing with time values. Therefore,
the JDK relies entirely on the OS to give it reasonable time values. The
OS, in turn, likely relies on a hardware clock, at least at system startup
time. Since Java generally deals with time values in terms of
milliseconds since Jan 1 1970, the date Jan 1 2000 is of no special
significance. I can tell you what the value is if you really want to
know, but it's pretty much as non-interesting as any other
millisecond. So the question really becomes, come Jan 1, what is your OS
going to tell the JDK the time is? There should only be problems if your
hardware clock stores only 2 digits of the year.
I'm by no means a Y2K authority, this is just what common sense tells
me. I haven't checked if my own h/w clock is going to work, and frankly I
don't much care. If it breaks, I'll fix it.
Cheers,
dstn.
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