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