Hey All!
Adding to the discussions of what did and did not fail the Y2K
rollover. I've encountered 3 Y2K glitches. At least one is a package
with RedHat.
Mutt has a Y2K bug in dealing with messages containing a 2 digit
year. If the date in a message says something like "Jan 1, 00" Mutt is
going to see it as "Feb 7, 2036". If the date says "Jan 1, 2000" then
you are not broken. Mutt 1.0pre3 is on the RedHat CD's. It still exists
in Mutt 1.0 release. There is a fix in the Mutt CVS that was posted on
Jan 2. <http://www.mutt.org>
For those of you using CBB (CheckBook Balancer) there were a couple
of last minute glitches and it may still old registers with two digit
years and show the current year as "100". CBB is in some RedHat contrib
repositories. Fix for the problems are in the CBB sources repository.
<http://cbb.sourceforge.net>
Printing with "genscript" reports the year as "100" in the fancy
"-G" headers. Not sure if it's a genscript problem, a ghostscript problem,
or a problem with a postscript printer. I suspect genscript. Don't know
if "enscript" on the RedHat CD's is similarly affected. If not, time to
change. :-)
Mike
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