Re: setting year to 2094 casuing Error.

From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Tue Jul 15 2003 - 09:17:44 EST

On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 23:35:35 PDT, Tupshin Harper said:
> Ranga Reddy M - CTD ,Chennai. wrote:
> >I have set the system time from BIOS to 17/03/2094.After setting this
> >,booted with linux O.S.
> >
> >Now its showing system date as year=1994.I did not get how this happend.

> http://www.howstuffworks.com/question75.htm

Yes, but if it was a 2038 problem, you'd expect a date in 2094 to roll over to 2026 (as
2094 is 56 years past 2038, and 2026 is 56 past 1970).

I suspect he has a crippled clock chip that only keeps 2 digits of year.


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