Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261218AbVEOU0V (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 May 2005 16:26:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261229AbVEOU0V (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 May 2005 16:26:21 -0400 Received: from alog0072.analogic.com ([208.224.220.87]:55506 "EHLO chaos.analogic.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261218AbVEOU0U (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 May 2005 16:26:20 -0400 Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 16:25:51 -0400 (EDT) From: "Richard B. Johnson" Reply-To: linux-os@analogic.com To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu cc: Bill Davidsen , "Srinivas G." , linux-kernel-Mailing-list Subject: Re: Y2K-like bug to hit Linux computers! - Info of the day In-Reply-To: <200505132047.j4DKlcgV025923@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> Message-ID: References: <4EE0CBA31942E547B99B3D4BFAB348114BED13@mail.esn.co.in> <200505131522.32403.vda@ilport.com.ua> <42850FC7.7010603@tmr.com> <200505132047.j4DKlcgV025923@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1090 Lines: 26 On Fri, 13 May 2005 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? ;) > Negative time. Will go as far below Unix birthdate as above. That's why there was a suggestion in the Y2K days of changing time_t to unsigned and biasing it off the Unix birthdate. But the pedants complained that Unix files, created before Unix existed, would have the wrong date. Cheers, Dick Johnson Penguin : Linux version 2.6.11 on an i686 machine (5537.79 BogoMips). Notice : All mail here is now cached for review by Dictator Bush. 98.36% of all statistics are fiction. - 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/