Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261555AbVEMVN7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 May 2005 17:13:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262559AbVEMVMl (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 May 2005 17:12:41 -0400 Received: from zcars04f.nortelnetworks.com ([47.129.242.57]:33939 "EHLO zcars04f.nortelnetworks.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261555AbVEMVHP (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 May 2005 17:07:15 -0400 Message-ID: <428516F8.20100@nortel.com> Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 15:07:04 -0600 X-Sybari-Space: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 From: Chris Friesen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040115 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu CC: Bill Davidsen , linux-os@analogic.com, "Srinivas G." , linux-kernel-Mailing-list Subject: Re: Y2K-like bug to hit Linux computers! - Info of the day References: <4EE0CBA31942E547B99B3D4BFAB348114BED13@mail.esn.co.in> <200505131522.32403.vda@ilport.com.ua> <42850FC7.7010603@tmr.com> <200505132047.j4DKlcgV025923@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <200505132047.j4DKlcgV025923@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 637 Lines: 20 Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote: > On Fri, 13 May 2005 16:36:23 EDT, Bill Davidsen said: > >>>Mon Jan 18 22:14:07 EST 2038 >>>Fri Dec 13 15:46:09 EST 1901 >> >> ^^^^^ are UTC and GMT that far apart? Leap seconds? WTF? > > > The heck with leap seconds - why did it warp back to 1901 rather > than to 1969/1970? ;) Because that's what the maximum negative number gives? Chris - 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/