> > Machines physically have problems. The RTC for example, may not work.
> > This may be at least in part a kernel issue.
>
> Not true. Read the documentation. The current year at offset 0x09, is a
> byte in BCD. The current CENTURY at offset 0x32 is a byte in BCD. This
> allows time to be kept to 9999. Even the BIOS allows it to be set to
> 2099 which is greater than the BIOS time can be kept (2033).
the RTC on my ASUS SP3G switches from Dec 31 1999 to Jan 1 1900.
yes, I can set the date to 2000 in the BIOS setup but this doesn't
help for automatic transission (I don't care anyway as the PC is
running all the time and I synchronize both the system clock and RTC
with a radio clock (but this is still only half of the truth as the
radio clock time format (DCF77 in germany) only submits 2 digits for the
year so I'll have to check my receiver/decoder programs within the next
two years for Y2K-conformance; does anyone know if xntpd with raw dcf77
(parse driver) is Y2K-proof?)).
Harald
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