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Re: More MS Y2K non-compliance... (fwd)
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Re: More MS Y2K non-compliance... (fwd)

  • To: NTBUGTRAQLISTSERV.NTBUGTRAQ.COM
  • Subject: Re: More MS Y2K non-compliance... (fwd)
  • From: "Daniel & Shawna's Home Account" <allicatAIRMAIL.NET>
  • Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 22:34:50 -0600
  • Comments: To: Steven Kastl <skastlWIRETRIP.NET>
  • Reply-To: "Daniel & Shawna's Home Account" <allicatAIRMAIL.NET>
  • Sender: Windows NT BugTraq Mailing List <NTBUGTRAQLISTSERV.NTBUGTRAQ.COM>
Microsoft has said this will be fixed in SP4. It is a known problem.
Article ID: Q175093 has a little info on this for NT4.0 found at
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q175/0/93.asp
There is more info, but I don't have time to dig at the moment.

-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Kastl <skastlWIRETRIP.NET>
To: NTBUGTRAQLISTSERV.NTBUGTRAQ.COM <NTBUGTRAQLISTSERV.NTBUGTRAQ.COM>
Date: Wednesday, March 25, 1998 9:29 PM
Subject: More MS Y2K non-compliance... (fwd)


>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>Date: Wed, 25 Mar 1998 10:00:41 -0600 (CST)
>From: Steven Kastl <skastlwiretrip.net>
>To: NTGUBTRAQLISTSERV.ORG
>Cc: BUGTRAQNETSPACE.ORG
>Subject: More MS Y2K non-compliance...
>
>This is a bug, not an exploit
>
>Product(s):
>
>MSSQL Server 6.5 (SP3)
>Windows NT 4.0 (SP3)
>
>Problem:
>
>Y2K is a leap year (before we go any further on this issue, check your
>sources, because it is...).
>
>A scheduled backup job for 02-29-2000 cannot be entered.  Dates 02-28 and
>03-01 can be entered, and the day of week is appropriately changed (i.e.
>from Monday 02-28 to Wednesday 03-01).
>
>No other functionality of SQL Server seems to be impaired (all other tests
>passed).
>
>Microsoft has been notified.
>
>I have looked in the MS KB and found nothing relating to this issue.
>
>Comments welcome
>
>Regards,
>
>--Steve Kastl
>
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