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 Message 7640 
 August Abolins to Maurice Kinal 
 two digit years must die 
 18 Dec 20 08:01:00 
 
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Hello Maurice!

** On Thursday 17.12.20 - 17:39, Maurice Kinal wrote to All:

 MK> After playing around with two digit years I've discovered
 MK> that at the zero hour of January 1st 2069 coreutil's date
 MK> application suddenly reverts back to 1969...

Are you doing that on an 16-bit system?

On a semi-related note, I found out that both of my iPods will  
be useless for date related things once 2038 rolls around.  I  
may still keep them for playing music, podcasts and some  
videos  - or maybe I'll expire before then!  :/

--
  ../|ug

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