From: Dave Wood <dpw@cts.com>
Subject: Re: Y2K Issues (well, not really...)
Date: 1998/10/27
Date: 1998-10-27T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <36369015.BCA1B1C9@cts.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: F1I5z2.9K8.0.-s@inmet.camb.inmet.com
Tucker Taft wrote:
>
> : In article <7125a8$e7u$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
> : dennison@telepath.com wrote:
>
> : > Don't be quite so hard on uSoft. ObjectAda 7.1.1 had this exact same problem.
>
> That surprises me, because the package Calendar we have shipped with
> our Ada 95 front end since the beginning has the following leap_year
> function (original comment included):
[snip]
>
> : > I understand it has been fixed in the current release, though.
>
> That's good. Maybe there is an interesting story here (or perhaps
> this whole thing is apocryphal?).
I don't know how good the story is - that's for others
to decide! To me, I'm afraid, the story is no more
exciting than any other ordinary bug story - no major
database corruptions, power outages, downed airlines,
or other significant catastophes. We leave those to
C code. :)
The problem had nothing to do with whether or not the year
2000 is a leap year. As Tucker has said, our runtime
understands that this is so.
The problem was that our implementation of Ada.Real_Time
caused an internal runtime exception when any Ada
application was executed on *any* leap year day, 1904, 1996,
2000, 2060, etc. It just happened to be caught during our
routine year 2000 testing which includes leap tests.
Although the issue was detected just prior to the current
7.1.2 release, we felt no great need to delay that
release to include a fix, given that the problem is
unlikely to manifest itself for another 1.5 years. The
fix is in the upcoming 7.1.3 release.
For those who might have an immediate need, a patch is
posted on our web site in the support area.
-- Dave Wood, Aonix
-- Product Manager, ObjectAda for Windows
-- http://www.aonix.com
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Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-10-19 0:00 Y2K Issues John J Cupak Jr
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1998-10-20 0:00 ` Joe Gwinn
1998-10-19 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-19 0:00 ` Niklas Holsti
[not found] ` <362B8D2F.802F42E6@lmco.com>
1998-10-20 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-10-22 0:00 ` Mark Bennison
1998-10-22 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-23 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-10-20 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-23 0:00 ` Michael F Brenner
1998-10-25 0:00 ` Michael Feldman
1998-10-26 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1998-10-26 0:00 ` Joel Seidman
1998-10-26 0:00 ` Y2K Issues - Warning Off-Topic Al Christians
1998-10-27 0:00 ` Y2K Issues dewarr
1998-10-26 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-27 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-27 0:00 ` John Herro
1998-10-27 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-10-27 0:00 ` Dave Wood [this message]
1998-10-28 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-28 0:00 ` Dave Wood
1998-10-27 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-10-29 0:00 ` system
1998-10-29 0:00 ` Al Christians
1998-11-02 0:00 ` Marin David Condic
1998-11-04 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-11-05 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-11-06 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-11-07 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-11-06 0:00 ` Al Christians
1998-11-08 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1998-11-08 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-11-06 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-10-27 0:00 ` Gautier de Montmollin
1998-10-28 0:00 ` Arthur Evans Jr
1998-10-28 0:00 ` adam
1998-10-28 0:00 ` Al Christians
1998-10-29 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1998-11-04 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-10-28 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-28 0:00 ` Gautier.DeMontmollin
1998-10-28 0:00 ` Jean-Pierre Rosen
1998-10-28 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1998-10-29 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1998-10-29 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-10-29 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-29 0:00 ` Tucker Taft
1998-10-30 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-31 0:00 ` dewarr
1998-11-02 0:00 ` dennison
1998-10-30 0:00 ` Dale Stanbrough
1998-10-30 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
1998-10-31 0:00 ` dewar
1998-10-29 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1998-10-29 0:00 ` Mark A Biggar
1998-10-28 0:00 ` adam
1998-10-29 0:00 ` Gautier.DeMontmollin
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