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Article #136Re: Year 2000 and Linux
From: Bloody Viking
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 1998 00:00
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 1998 00:00
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Wayne Schlitt (wayne@midwestcs.com) wrote:
: 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.
While Linux shares the one signed integer register with "real" UNIXes, the
obtaining of what's in it has to come from the hardware clock and
converted into the classic UNIX style.
What Linux is doing is taking the hardware clock's output and then
converting it to the UNIX 32-bit format, and using the existing clock,
compensating for 1900 == 2000. Works great in my tests on the noncompliant
boxes.
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