On Sun, 19 Mar 2000 SDenningho@aol.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've a problem with the real-time clock. It detects digital unix epoch 1952,
> but sets
> my clock to year 2052 (even if SRM says 2000)!
> Any idea ?
yes, it seems to be something like a y2k-bug ...
it's got to be close to these
from linux-2.2.14/arch/alpha/kernel/time.c:309
[...]
if ((year += 1900) < 1970)
year += 100;
xtime.tv_sec = mktime(year, mon, day, hour, min, sec);
xtime.tv_usec = 0;
[...]
from linux-2.2.14/drivers/char/rtc.c:
[...]
static unsigned long epoch = 1900; /* year corresponding to 0x00 */
[...]
if (year > 10 && year < 44) {
epoch = 1980;
guess = "ARC console";
} else if (year < 96) {
epoch = 1952;
guess = "Digital UNIX";
}
[...]
--
with kind regards (mit freundlichem Grinsen),
Ruediger Oertel (ro@suse.de)
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does "DONT PANIC" give a hint ?
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