Lummox JR wrote in message <376### [at] aolcom>...
>Mark wrote:
>> Is POV-Ray Y2K compliant?
>
>Sort of a silly question, actually. What you really should be asking is
>whether the OS will freak out (an instant crash simply won't happen no
>matter what), or the power will go out (unlikely at this point).
>But for a program to be "Y2K-compliant", there first has to be some
>reason why it wouldn't be. Anything that works with a date could perhaps
>be suspect; but POV is simply a number cruncher, so it doesn't fall into
>that category. And typically, date-related programs couldn't crash
>either--they'd just cause some screwy result to happen.
>This is sort of like asking if a program that adds 2+2 will crash if
>your printer suddenly stops working--unless it's using the printer, the
>program doesn't care.


So POV-Ray might report that the rendering took -36524d 23h 17m 23s to
render.

Mark

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