Bug 8438 - A real Y2K problem in tmac.m
Summary: A real Y2K problem in tmac.m
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: groff
Version: 6.1
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Cristian Gafton
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Reported: 2000-01-13 02:46 UTC by degraaf
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-02-05 19:48:20 UTC
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Description degraaf 2000-01-13 02:46:15 UTC
Omigod - a Real Y2K problem!
In the MM macro package - tmac.m the default date prints as
	January 12, 19100
when the .ND macro is omitted.
Obviously this is easily circumvented by using .ND but it's just
about the only Y2K problem I've come across in all of Linux.

This seems to fix it:

# diff tmac.mSAV tmac.m
2623,2624c2623,2624
< .ie \\n[yr]<50 .ds cov*new-date \\*[MO\\n[mo]] \\n[dy], 20\\n[yr]
< .el .ds cov*new-date \\*[MO\\n[mo]] \\n[dy], 19\\n[yr]
---
> .nr cov*year 1900+\n[yr]
> .ds cov*new-date \*[MO\n[mo]] \n[dy], \n[cov*year]


Someone with more competence than me ought to check this out.

Please don't "fix" this by dropping tmac.m as is presently being done.
(see my earlier Bugzilla #8362.)

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2000-02-05 19:48:59 UTC
This was fixed in the groff errata.


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