Re: [SLUG] Re: [Oz-ISP] Y2K precautions

[Andrew Macks <andypoo@nospam.ihug.com.au>]

On Sun, 2 Jan 2000, Ken Yap wrote:

> The one harmless glitch I did notice is that unzip 5.32 displayed archive
> member dates as:
> 
> 	... 01-01-100 ...
> 
> Aha, the typical mistake of subtracting 1900 to get the years. I installed
> 5.40 and the glitch was gone.

On a similar, and more serious note, it seems there is a big browser
issue with the Year 2000.

Netscape and IE can return the date as 2 digits in javascript.  A lot of
sites use this to display the date on their site.

Unfortunately, when 99 switched over, Netscape made it 100 and IE made it
2000 :)  So now it's 3900 according to a LOT of sites in IE :)  But 2000
according to Netscape :)

Also, gigabyte have an error in their Javascript which is something like..

If year < 100 add 1900 else add 2000

Which is very stupid when you look at it :)

And makes their site display 4000 in IE and 2100 in Netscape =)

Andrew.

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