Re: setting year to 2094 casuing Error.

Joel Jaeggli (joelja@darkwing.uoregon.edu)
Tue, 15 Jul 2003 00:24:46 -0700 (PDT)


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
>
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