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Article #139Re: Year 2000 and Linux
From: J.R.Suckling
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 1998 00:00
Date: Fri, 06 Mar 1998 00:00
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In article <6dmenj$4av$1@news1.mnsinc.com>, Larry Mintz <mintz@mnsinc.com> wrote: >H. Peter Anvin (hpa@transmeta.com) wrote: >: > The only place where you might run into trouble is because computer >: > hardware clock maintains the 2-digit date, so that loading the system >: > clock on bootup from the hardware clock would result in a 1900 date in >: > year 2000. This is easy to fix; simply, getting years 00 to 90 from the >: > stupid hardware clock will result in adding 2000, not 1900, to the >: > year, and we are good for 90 more years. Since Linux didn't exist before >: > 1990, it is not going to cause problems :^) > >: This is correct. > >Yes, but Unix, whose design Linux mimics, did exists prior to 1990. > Right, You may want to read a tar file from even the 1970's. We had best leave the epoc as 1970 like it has always been. Simply goto 64 bits time before 2038.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f5392,988a9a95e4afdf07 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5392,public X-Google-Thread: 11663c,988a9a95e4afdf07 X-Google-Attributes: gid11663c,public From: bobs@apgea.army.mil (J.R.Suckling) Subject: Re: Year 2000 and Linux Date: 1998/03/06 Message-ID: <EpEnMu.A4s.0.cb2@apgea.army.mil> X-Deja-AN: 331448311 References: <541zwjlq6y.fsf@rrdjazz.nist.gov> <6dhaif$q91$1@palladium.transmeta.com> <6dmenj$4av$1@news1.mnsinc.com> Organization: Edgewood Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,dc.org.linux-users