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Subject: [GNU-traductores] old-gnudist:/home/www/html/software/year2000.html -- New file
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 06:29:15 -0800 (PST) 
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   4 -rw-rw-r--    1 webcvs   www          3238 Apr  8  2001 
/home/www/html/software/year2000.html

Contents:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Year 2000 - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation (FSF)</TITLE>
<LINK REV="made" HREF="mailto:address@hidden";>
</HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#1F00FF" ALINK="#FF0000" 
VLINK="#9900DD">
<H3>GNU Software in the Year 2000</H3>

<A HREF="/graphics/agnuhead.html"><IMG SRC="/graphics/gnu-head-sm.jpg"
   ALT=" [image of the Head of a GNU] "
   WIDTH="129" HEIGHT="122"></A>

[ English
| <A HREF="/software/year2000.ko.html">Korean</A>
| <A HREF="/software/year2000.es.html">Spanish</A>
| <A HREF="/software/year2000.pt.html">Portuguese</A>
]

<P>
Koos Schut maintains a <A HREF="/software/year2000-list.html">list of
GNU Software packages with information about Year 2000 properties
collected from volunteer users</A>.  That list is offered as a guide
and should not be construed as the record of a formal testing program
or as providing any guarantee of compliance or noncompliance.

<P>
The Free Software Foundation does not provide warranties for its
software.  We can't afford to.  So we can't promise that GNU software
has no Year 2000 bugs, any more than we could promise you the same
thing about another sort of bug.  But we can tell you some reasons why
such bugs are probably very few.

<P>
The main reason is theoretical.  GNU systems, and Unix-like systems
generally, represent a date/time as a 32-bit integer, counting seconds
from the beginning of 1970.  This 32-bit count will overflow in 2038;
but there will be no problem in that year, because by then all systems
will have redefined <code>time_t</code> to be a 64-bit integer.

<P>
We also have some practical evidence that such problems are not
widespread.
Some users running a
<A HREF="/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html">Linux-based GNU system</A>, specifically
<A HREF="http://www.debian.org/";>Debian GNU/Linux</A>, used their
machines for a while with the clocks set forward to the year 2000.
They reported no special problems.

<P>
You can check that you are using the latest release of any particular
GNU program by checking one of our
<A HREF="/prep/ftp.html">FTP mirror sites</A>.
The <code>ls-lR</code> file in the
root directory of one of our FTP servers could be useful to get a list of all
available versions.
<P>
If you do encounter any problems with GNU software, even if they are
not related to the year 2000, you should send a bug report to the
developers of the program.
<HR>

Return to <A HREF="/home.html">GNU's home page</A>.
<P>

Please send FSF &amp; GNU inquiries &amp; questions to 

<A HREF="mailto:address@hidden";><EM>address@hidden</EM></A>.
There are also <A HREF="/home.html#ContactInfo">other ways to
contact</A> the FSF.
<P>

Please send comments on these web pages to

<A HREF="mailto:address@hidden";><EM>address@hidden</EM></A>,
send other questions to
<A HREF="mailto:address@hidden";><EM>address@hidden</EM></A>.
<P>
Copyright (C) 1997, 1998, 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111,  USA
<P>
Verbatim copying and distribution of this entire article is
permitted in any medium, provided this notice is preserved.<P>
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