From: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>,
linux-os@analogic.com,
"Srinivas G." <srinivasg@esntechnologies.co.in>,
linux-kernel-Mailing-list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Y2K-like bug to hit Linux computers! - Info of the day
Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 15:07:04 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <428516F8.20100@nortel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200505132047.j4DKlcgV025923@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-13 21:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-13 11:43 Y2K-like bug to hit Linux computers! - Info of the day Srinivas G.
2005-05-13 11:48 ` Matthias-Christian Ott
2005-05-13 12:17 ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-05-13 16:07 ` Lee Revell
2005-05-13 12:22 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-05-13 12:27 ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-05-13 12:43 ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-05-13 20:36 ` Bill Davidsen
2005-05-13 20:47 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-05-13 21:07 ` Chris Friesen [this message]
2005-05-13 21:22 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-05-13 23:10 ` David Lang
2005-05-13 21:24 ` Alan Cox
2005-05-14 9:09 ` christos gentsis
2005-05-14 9:46 ` jnf
2005-05-14 10:37 ` christos gentsis
2005-05-14 10:20 ` Willy Tarreau
2005-05-15 20:25 ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-05-13 14:37 ` DervishD
2005-05-13 15:19 ` randy_dunlap
2005-05-13 15:24 ` DervishD
2005-05-13 16:11 ` Alan Cox
2005-05-15 16:20 ` Helge Hafting
2005-05-16 2:09 ` Paul Jakma
2005-05-14 12:46 Matthew Geier
2005-05-14 20:27 ` christos gentsis
2005-05-14 21:19 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-05-15 1:04 ` Gene Heskett
[not found] <43GQ7-5qy-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-05-14 13:41 ` Bodo Eggert <harvested.in.lkml@posting.7eggert.dyndns.org>
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