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Re: Year 2000 and Linux

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From: J.R.Suckling
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 1998 00:00
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In article <6dmenj$4av$1@news1.mnsinc.com>,
Larry Mintz <mintz@mnsinc.com> wrote:
>H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com) wrote:
>: > The only place where you might run into trouble is because computer
>: > hardware clock maintains the 2-digit date, so that loading the system
>: > clock on bootup from the hardware clock would result in a 1900 date in
>: > year 2000. This is easy to fix; simply, getting years 00 to 90 from the
>: > stupid hardware clock will result in adding 2000, not 1900, to the
>: > year, and we are good for 90 more years. Since Linux didn't exist before
>: > 1990, it is not going to cause problems :^)
>
>: This is correct.
>
>Yes, but Unix, whose design Linux mimics, did exists prior to 1990.
>

Right, You may want to read a tar file from even the 1970's.
We had best leave the epoc as 1970 like it has always been.
Simply goto 64 bits time before 2038.
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From: bobs@apgea.army.mil (J.R.Suckling)
Subject: Re: Year 2000 and Linux
Date: 1998/03/06
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