From: Tupshin Harper <tupshin@tupshin.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: "Ranga Reddy M - CTD ,Chennai." <rangareddym@ctd.hcltech.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: setting year to 2094 casuing Error.
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 11:52:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F144D88.8000401@tupshin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200307151417.h6FEHkMQ010873@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>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.
>
>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-15 18:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-15 5:55 setting year to 2094 casuing Error Ranga Reddy M - CTD ,Chennai.
2003-07-15 6:35 ` Tupshin Harper
2003-07-15 7:24 ` Joel Jaeggli
2003-07-15 14:17 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-07-15 18:52 ` Tupshin Harper [this message]
2003-07-15 19:35 ` Richard B. Johnson
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