People report that an Alpha with year==0 in RTC
gets assigned epoch 1952, so that the year ends up as 2052.
The patch below should fix this for the coming twenty years.
Andries
[copied from another window - tabs will have become spaces]
--- rtc.c~ Sat Mar 18 23:25:12 2000
+++ rtc.c Mon Mar 20 14:48:48 2000
@@ -670,10 +670,10 @@
if (!(ctrl & RTC_DM_BINARY) || RTC_ALWAYS_BCD)
BCD_TO_BIN(year); /* This should never happen... */
- if (year > 10 && year < 44) {
+ if (year >= 20 && year < 48) {
epoch = 1980;
guess = "ARC console";
- } else if (year < 96) {
+ } else if (year >= 48 && year < 100) {
epoch = 1952;
guess = "Digital UNIX";
}
-
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