From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265976AbTGOHLU (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2003 03:11:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265998AbTGOHLT (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2003 03:11:19 -0400 Received: from darkwing.uoregon.edu ([128.223.142.13]:2703 "EHLO darkwing.uoregon.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265976AbTGOHLL (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2003 03:11:11 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 00:24:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Joel Jaeggli X-X-Sender: joelja@twin.uoregon.edu To: Tupshin Harper cc: "Ranga Reddy M - CTD ,Chennai." , Subject: Re: setting year to 2094 casuing Error. In-Reply-To: <3F13A0B7.6050103@tupshin.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org the 32bit epoch ends in 2038... joelja On Mon, 14 Jul 2003, Tupshin Harper wrote: > Ranga Reddy M - CTD ,Chennai. wrote: > > >Hi, > > > >Iam working on linux system with Redhat -8.0. > > > >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. > > > >Can any one tell me about this??? > > > >Thanks in advance > > > >-Ranga > > > > > http://www.howstuffworks.com/question75.htm > > -Tupshin > > - > 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/ > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Jaeggli Academic User Services joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu -- PGP Key Fingerprint: 1DE9 8FCA 51FB 4195 B42A 9C32 A30D 121E -- In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of the scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"