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Does VNC have any Year 2000 bugs?

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Does VNC have any Year 2000 bugs?

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The WinVNC server and Windows viewer have been tested on a PC with its date running through the 2000 boundary without any problems, so unless the underlying OS or BIOS has difficulties, VNC on a PC should be fine. The VNC part of the X-based Unix VNC server only uses dates when writing the log files; the logfile entries are timestamped with a two-digit year, but the format is easy to change if required and the entries are not intended to be machine-readable. To the best of our knowledge there are no issues with the XFree86 server on which Xvnc is based, but that is not within our control. We therefore issue the standard disclaimer: we believe the VNC code, in its entirety, to be free from Year 2000 problems, subject to the other components of the systems on which it is running.

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