Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: setting year to 2094 casuing Error. | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Tue, 15 Jul 2003 10:17:44 -0400 |
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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. [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |