Re: Scanning FSF 20.5 for fixes..
>>>> Jan Vroonhof writes:
Rumour has it FSF 20.5 contains a few (minor) Y2K fixes. It would be
nice if somebody could so a scan of the Chanelogs what bugs they fixed
(not just the Y2K ones).
We don't have the embarrassing fix in timezone.el.
A quick grep just revealed the following ChangeLog entries:
1999-09-07 Edward M. Reingold <reingold(a)emr.cs.uiuc.edu>
* diary-lib.el (list-diary-entries): Make sure two-digit years
have leading zeros.
1999-09-06 Richard Stallman <rms(a)gnu.org>
* vc.el (vc-annotate-display): Use < 69 not < 70
to distinguish 20YY from 19YY.
* timezone.el (timezone-parse-date): Use < 69 not < 70
to distinguish 20YY from 19YY.
1999-09-05 Richard Stallman <rms(a)gnu.org>
* vc.el (vc-annotate-display): Treat 2-digit years under 70 as 20YY.
1998-08-29 Edward M. Reingold <reingold(a)emr.cs.uiuc.edu>
* cal-china.el (chinese-year-cache): Change range of years from
1989-2000 to 1990-2010.
1999-08-24 Dave Love <fx(a)gnu.org>
* timezone.el (timezone-parse-date): Assume 2-digit dates <70 are
2000+.
I'm going to merge the cal-china.el and vc.el changes. I would prefer
if somebody else checks this.
Btw. we check for < 70 but shouldn't we check for < 69? AFAIK the
rule is that 69-99 refers to the twentieth century.
I've sent patches to xemacs-patches for these problems.
Andreas
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