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      <dd>Chpass has a problem using 00 for expiration year.
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      <dd>Chpass has a problem using 00 for expiration year.
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	  href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=15852">bin/15852</a> and
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	  href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=16045">gnu/16045</a> and
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	  href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=16207">bin/16207</a>
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      <dd>Groff predefined \*(DT [\*(td] string has Y2K bug. [Fixed with import of
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        version 1.15 2000/01/12]
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	  href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=15872">bin/15872</a></dt>
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      <dd>at(1) has a problem with valid time specifications if tm_year is 100,
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        reports `garbled time'.
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	  href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=16238">misc/16238</a></dt>
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      <dd>KerberosIV install does not work properly because there is a hard-wired
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	expiration date of 12/31/99 in the Kerberos source for the ticket
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	granter. [Fixed v1.24 1999/09/19]
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	</dd>
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    <h2>Problematic applications</h2>
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    <h2>Problematic applications</h2>
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      <dd>The slurp port has a problem generating a correctly formatted host file
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      <dd>The slurp port has a problem generating a correctly formatted host file
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      name when tm_year is greater than 100. [Port patched 1999/10/27; fixes
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      name when tm_year is greater than 100. [Port patched 1999/10/27; fixes
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      in FreeBSD-3.3-STABLE and above]</dd>
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      in FreeBSD-3.3-STABLE and above]</dd>
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	  href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=15477">ports/15477</a></dt>
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      <dd>wwwstat port has a hardcoded 19.
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	  href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=15789">ports/15789</a></dt>
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      <dd>proftpd has a minor Y2K problem. [Port patched 1999/12/22]
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	  href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=15820">ports/15820</a></dt>
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      <dd>sendfile has a problem not setting the atime and mtime properly
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	for files sent after year 1999.
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	  href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=15854">ports/15854</a></dt>
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      <dd>dclock uses localtime and in particular the references to
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	tm_year do not take into account the year 2000. [Port patched 2000/01/04]
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	  href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=15868">ports/15868</a></dt>
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      <dd>The reporting function of hylafax (xferstats) is not y2k compatible.
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	[Port patched 2000/01/24]
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	  href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=15926">ports/15926</a></dt>
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      <dd>A y2k bug in leafnode+ 2.9 considers incoming news articles with the 
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	(arguably bogus) Date: header like `Wed, 05 Jan 00 15:01:40 GMT'
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	to be too old, so these incoming articles are dropped. [Fixed by upgrading
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	port to version 2.10 2000/01/24]
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	  href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=16062">ports/16062</a></dt>
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      <dd>Japanese e2ps port has hardcoded 19. [Port patched 2000/01/24]
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	  href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=16073">ports/16073</a></dt>
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      <dd>nntp port 1.5.11.5 has Y2K related problems.
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	[Port upgraded to version 1.5.12.2 2000/01/12]
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	  href="http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=16167">ports/16167</a></dt>
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      <dd>This is a bug-fix release that corrects a y2k bug in INN 2.2.1 that will show
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	up in the NEWNEWS and NEWGROUPS commands after 2000-01-01 00:00:00 when
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	the date specified to the command is before 2000-01-01 00:00:00.
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	[Port upgraded to version 2.2.2 2000/01/28]
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	</dd>
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      <dd>NetHack 3.2.2 and earlier versions are not Y2K compliant (the score file
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	used 2 digit years and will be corrupted if added to in the year 2000).
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	[Port updated to version 3.2.3 2000/01/05]
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      <dd>Japanese mnews port has Y2K problems.
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	[Port updated to version 1.22 1999/12/26]
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    <h2>More information</h2>
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    <h2>More information</h2>

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