Re: Year 2000 and Linux

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From: Wayne Schlitt
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 00:00

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In <6disqv$iut$1@hirame.wwa.com> nospam@wwa.com (Bloody Viking) writes:
> 
> [ ... ]                                                         Linux
> takes advantage of the 2038 rule as it was invented much later and thus,
> every year within Linux's "life" is unique even without a century byte. 

I'm not sure where you dug this "information" up, but the format for
time/dates that Linux uses is the same as for all other versions of
unix (well, some now use 64bits instead of 32, but..).  Unix was
invented about 10 years before MS-DOS, so it is hardly a newer
format.

-wayne

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Wayne Schlitt can not assert the truth of all statements in this
article and still be consistent.

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