1 Year 2000 Compliance 2 Patrick Powell 3 Astart Technologies 4 San Diego, CA 92123 5 6 Original Aug 30, 1998 7 Updated July 1, 1999 8 9 10Statement: 11 12 The LPRng software has no known Year 2000 data dependencies. 13 14 Where necessary, dates are generated using values relative to 15the UNIX Epoch, and will be consistent to 2034 at a conservative 16estimate. 17 18 However, since LPRng uses the RFC1179 standard for job and data file 19transfer, and other systems provide information in a form which may 20not be consistent, the LPRng author takes no reponsibility for other 21defective implementations and the effects of using these defective 22implementations with LPRng. 23 24 Testing has been done on the following systems: 25 1. BSDI UNIX, Version 3.0/3.1 (May 1998) 26 2. FreeBSD 2.5 (July 1998) 27 3. Red Hat Linux 5.1 (July 1998) 28 4. Solaris 2.6 (Intel and Sparc Versions) (May 1998) 29 30There were no observed problems with date formats using the LPRng 31software in toto. The software was NOT tested with the native LPD 32or LP (system V) print spoolers. 33 34Note: logging and other operations generate textual timestamps in 35either a short (hh:mm) or extended (yyyy-mm-dd-hh:mm:ss) format. 36The choice of short of extended formats is controlled by a simple 37configuration option. 38 39Patrick Powell 40Sun Aug 30 17:02:02 PDT 1998 41