Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 16 Feb 2008 20:24:37 +0100 (CET) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [2/5] Use 2000 offset for 32bit kernels |
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On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > We know it is already after 2000. > > This extends the effective lifetime of 32bit systems by 8 years: > from 2030 to 2038. > > The only drawback is that users cannot set the cmos date to before 2000 > now on 32bit with systems that don't support extended century in > the RTC clock. 64bit systems had this limitation for some time > and nobody complained. > > And they can always set it to such a date in Linux only using date -s > if they really want. > > Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Applied. Thanks,
tglx
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