But they don't. the 1/1/80 stuff is DOS. The timer chips keep the
BCD century, i.e. '19' in the century BYTE (not bit). Failure to
warp at the Y2K would make the time 1-1-1900. This is fixed in
the kernel so you have 99 years to reset the CMOS clock from the
BIOS or by using 'clock -w'.
Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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