# Re: A quick question

Roland Schemers (Roland.Schemers@Eng)
Thu, 30 Oct 1997 00:53:54 -0800 (PST)

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    From: Roland.Schemers@Eng (Roland Schemers)

    Message-Id: <199710300853.AAA29417@crypto.eng.sun.com>

    Subject: Re: A quick question

    To: graeme.smith@btm.bt.co.uk (Graeme Smith)

    Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 00:53:54 -0800 (PST)

    In-Reply-To: <345846E8.C3410786@btm.bt.co.uk> from "Graeme Smith" at Oct 30, 97 08:35:52 am

> I have heard recently that JavaScript is not Millenium compliant. Is
> this true??

I have no idea if JavaScript is or isn't. You'll have to ask Netscape.
JavaScript is totally unrealated to Java.

>Is Java affected by the same problem and if so are there any
> plans to release future versions of Java/JavaScript that are Millenium
> compliant??

As far as I know Java has no Y2K problems. In fact, it uses a long (64
bits) to represent the number of miliseconds since Jan 1st, 1970.
It does have a year 292280996 problem though ;-)

Of course that doesn't mean application-writers won't do dumb things
in Java if they really want to...

roland

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