From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269290AbTGOSjv (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2003 14:39:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269268AbTGOSju (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2003 14:39:50 -0400 Received: from adsl-67-114-19-186.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net ([67.114.19.186]:14763 "HELO adsl-63-202-77-221.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S269324AbTGOSiI (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2003 14:38:08 -0400 Message-ID: <3F144D88.8000401@tupshin.com> Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 11:52:56 -0700 From: Tupshin Harper User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030618 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu CC: "Ranga Reddy M - CTD ,Chennai." , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: setting year to 2094 casuing Error. References: <3F13A0B7.6050103@tupshin.com> <200307151417.h6FEHkMQ010873@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> In-Reply-To: <200307151417.h6FEHkMQ010873@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 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