Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Jul 2003 11:52:56 -0700 | From | Tupshin Harper <> | Subject | Re: setting year to 2094 casuing Error. |
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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
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