On Thu, Dec 03, 1998 at 10:30:44AM -0500, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 02, 1998 at 11:53:57AM +1030, Alan Modra wrote: > > > > > Linux ignores the RTC century byte (for good reason). Before I put > > > this fix in, when the year wrapped to 00 Linux would read the RTC > > > year as 1900. So a reboot (who does that anyway?) would give a > > > classic Y2K time warp. > > > > So how does it know what century it is? > > If the right part of the year is less then z it's 20xx if it's greater > it's 19xx
So how does it cope with 2000 being a leep year? In the small ammount of
experimenting I have done, the year goes back to 1980, not 1900. I think
linux needs some way of dealing with these buggy machines, probably in
user space. > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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