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Subject: Y2K
From: Bill Cruise <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 12:20:06 -1000
We have been upgrading and running Y2K tests on our systems.
I was sure that the EPICS components would have no trouble,
mainly based on everything I had heard and read.

Well, I got quite a surprise when our system display showed
1 Jan 1900!  Turns out that tsStampToText() is used to break
out the timestamp (which itself is OK), and it only has an 
option for a "YY" type format.  Unfortunately this function 
call is at the heart of our system.  We are running R3.13.beta11, 
in case there are version differences in this area.

So, a word to the wise might be to check into timestamp
formatting.  I'm thinking we will replace the timestamp to
text and text to year, month, day, etc. back-to-back
conversions with a single routine that does everything (right).


-- 

William L. Cruise                             [email protected]
Electronics System Supervisor                   FAX:    808 885-7288
Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope                  Voice:  808 885-3122
P.O. Box 1597                     http://www.cfht.hawaii.edu/~cruise
Kamuela, HI   96743


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