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| [16184] | 1 | Top and the Year 2000 |
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| 3 | The software package top will not be affected by years numbering |
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| 4 | between 2000 and 2037. No portion of the top code stores dates on |
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| 5 | disk. All date processing in top is performed with functions from the |
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| 6 | Unix C library and Unix kernel. The specific functions are: time(2) |
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| 7 | and ctime(3S). These functions deal exclusively with conventional |
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| 8 | Unix time values (number of seconds since Midnight January 1, 1970 |
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| 9 | GMT) and produce strings with a 4-digit year. At no point in the code |
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| 10 | for top are the last two digits used to represent a year. |
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| 12 | Top and the Year 2038 |
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| 14 | In the year 2038 top will fail to represent the time of day correctly |
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| 15 | on 32-bit Unix operating systems. This is due to a limitation in the |
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| 16 | way Unix represents time. Top will only work on systems whose kernel |
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| 17 | call "time" and C library call "ctime" have been adjusted to represent |
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| 18 | time with a value greater than 32 bits. The exact date and time of |
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| 19 | this failure is 3:14:08 January 19, 2038 GMT. Note that this failure |
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| 20 | will only affect the display of the current time in the output from |
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| 21 | top. |
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| 24 | THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY PROVIDED WITH THIS SOFTWARE. |
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| 25 | Please see the contents of the file "DISCLAIMER" for further |
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| 26 | information. |
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