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