Year 2000

Walter Winant wwinant at asrr.arsusda.gov
Wed May 13 07:44:09 EDT 1998


The Sun Solaris 2.3 has a calendar going back many years(Check out Sept. or
Oct. 1752).  I think that is the date the the English colonies and England
went to the Gregorian calendar. With 4 digit dates, there should be no Y2K
problem.

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> From: Tom Hawkins <hawkins at water.ca.gov>
> To: grass at cecer.army.mil
> Subject: Year 2000
> Date: Tuesday, May 12, 1998 7:26 PM
> 
> My Department has asked me if our GIS operations, which includes the use
of
> GRASS on a Sun workstation, are Year 2000 compliant.  My reply has been
> that the data we create does not include anything to do with years or
time
> in the database.  Our filenames include a reference to year, but nothing
in
> the data files themselves.  
>  
> Are there any issues concerning the year 2000 with the software itself
that
> anyone is aware of?
> 
> Thanks in advance
> 
>  
> Tom Hawkins
> Department of Water Resources
> 1416 9th Street
> Sacramento, CA  95814
> 916-653-5573
> hawkins at water.ca.gov



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