Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 23:35:35 PDT, Tupshin Harper said:
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>>Ranga Reddy M - CTD ,Chennai. wrote:
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>>>I have set the system time from BIOS to 17/03/2094.After setting this
>>>,booted with linux O.S.
>>>
>>>Now its showing system date as year=1994.I did not get how this happend.
>>>
>>>
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>>http://www.howstuffworks.com/question75.htm
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>Yes, but if it was a 2038 problem, you'd expect a date in 2094 to roll over to 2026 (as
>2094 is 56 years past 2038, and 2026 is 56 past 1970).
>
>I suspect he has a crippled clock chip that only keeps 2 digits of year.
>
>
Agreed...I didn't do the math to verify that was his only problem, but
he seemed unaware that there are *any* known problems with dates in the
future, and the URL i sent was merely designed to point out that such
dates are unsupported for now.
-Tupshin
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