Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267852AbTGOODM (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2003 10:03:12 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268019AbTGOODM (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2003 10:03:12 -0400 Received: from h80ad2707.async.vt.edu ([128.173.39.7]:48538 "EHLO turing-police.cc.vt.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267852AbTGOODJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2003 10:03:09 -0400 Message-Id: <200307151417.h6FEHkMQ010873@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.6.3 04/04/2003 with nmh-1.0.4+dev To: Tupshin Harper Cc: "Ranga Reddy M - CTD ,Chennai." , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: setting year to 2094 casuing Error. In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 14 Jul 2003 23:35:35 PDT." <3F13A0B7.6050103@tupshin.com> From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu References: <3F13A0B7.6050103@tupshin.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_1295932768P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 10:17:44 -0400 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1165 Lines: 35 --==_Exmh_1295932768P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 23:35:35 PDT, Tupshin Harper said: > Ranga Reddy M - CTD ,Chennai. wrote: > >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. > http://www.howstuffworks.com/question75.htm 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. --==_Exmh_1295932768P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 iD8DBQE/FA0IcC3lWbTT17ARAnHEAKDO9roiSJ/nxZY2A/j6BksQvj8C4gCdHGyK dz2PbrFHUv8QCj9HNos0nzY= =W/EV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_1295932768P-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/