Remove the Y2K compliance statement

As of July 2018, this statement is no longer necessary.
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Cosmin Truta
2018-07-28 23:39:55 -04:00
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* <https://www.w3.org/TR/2003/REC-PNG-20031110/
*/
/*
* Y2K compliance in libpng:
* =========================
*
* July 15, 2018
*
* Since the PNG Development group is an ad-hoc body, we can't make
* an official declaration.
*
* This is your unofficial assurance that libpng from version 0.71 and
* upward through 1.6.35 are Y2K compliant. It is my belief that
* earlier versions were also Y2K compliant.
*
* Libpng only has two year fields. One is a 2-byte unsigned integer
* that will hold years up to 65535. The other, which is deprecated,
* holds the date in text format, and will hold years up to 9999.
*
* The integer is
* "png_uint_16 year" in png_time_struct.
*
* The string is
* "char time_buffer[29]" in png_struct. This is no longer used
* in libpng-1.6.x and will be removed from libpng-1.7.0.
*
* There are seven time-related functions:
* png.c: png_convert_to_rfc_1123_buffer() in png.c
* (formerly png_convert_to_rfc_1123() prior to libpng-1.5.x and
* png_convert_to_rfc_1152() in error prior to libpng-0.98)
* png_convert_from_struct_tm() in pngwrite.c, called in pngwrite.c
* png_convert_from_time_t() in pngwrite.c
* png_get_tIME() in pngget.c
* png_handle_tIME() in pngrutil.c, called in pngread.c
* png_set_tIME() in pngset.c
* png_write_tIME() in pngwutil.c, called in pngwrite.c
*
* All handle dates properly in a Y2K environment. The
* png_convert_from_time_t() function calls gmtime() to convert from system
* clock time, which returns (year - 1900), which we properly convert to
* the full 4-digit year. There is a possibility that libpng applications
* are not passing 4-digit years into the png_convert_to_rfc_1123_buffer()
* function, or that they are incorrectly passing only a 2-digit year
* instead of "year - 1900" into the png_convert_from_struct_tm() function,
* but this is not under our control. The libpng documentation has always
* stated that it works with 4-digit years, and the APIs have been
* documented as such.
*
* The tIME chunk itself is also Y2K compliant. It uses a 2-byte unsigned
* integer to hold the year, and can hold years as large as 65535.
*
* zlib, upon which libpng depends, is also Y2K compliant. It contains
* no date-related code.
*
* Glenn Randers-Pehrson
* libpng maintainer
* PNG Development Group
*/
#ifndef PNG_H
#define PNG_H