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diff --git a/contrib/top/Y2K b/contrib/top/Y2K new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7cf17bf --- /dev/null +++ b/contrib/top/Y2K @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +Top and the Year 2000 + +The software package top will not be affected by years numbering +between 2000 and 2037. No portion of the top code stores dates on +disk. All date processing in top is performed with functions from the +Unix C library and Unix kernel. The specific functions are: time(2) +and ctime(3S). These functions deal exclusively with conventional +Unix time values (number of seconds since Midnight January 1, 1970 +GMT) and produce strings with a 4-digit year. At no point in the code +for top are the last two digits used to represent a year. + +Top and the Year 2038 + +In the year 2038 top will fail to represent the time of day correctly +on 32-bit Unix operating systems. This is due to a limitation in the +way Unix represents time. Top will only work on systems whose kernel +call "time" and C library call "ctime" have been adjusted to represent +time with a value greater than 32 bits. The exact date and time of +this failure is 3:14:08 January 19, 2038 GMT. Note that this failure +will only affect the display of the current time in the output from +top. + + +THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY PROVIDED WITH THIS SOFTWARE. +Please see the contents of the file "DISCLAIMER" for further +information. |