Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Tue, 15 Jul 2003 00:24:46 -0700 (PDT) | From | Joel Jaeggli <> | Subject | Re: setting year to 2094 casuing Error. |
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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/ >
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