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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>,
	linux-os@analogic.com,
	"Srinivas G." <srinivasg@esntechnologies.co.in>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Y2K-like bug to hit Linux computers! - Info of the day
Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 22:24:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1116019438.26693.501.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200505132047.j4DKlcgV025923@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>

On Gwe, 2005-05-13 at 21:47, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> The heck with leap seconds - why did it warp back to 1901 rather
> than to 1969/1970? ;)

time_t is signed so it jumps back. 0:00 UTC is 0 not -MAXINT.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-05-13 21:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-13 11:43 Y2K-like bug to hit Linux computers! - Info of the day Srinivas G.
2005-05-13 11:48 ` Matthias-Christian Ott
2005-05-13 12:17 ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-05-13 16:07   ` Lee Revell
2005-05-13 12:22 ` Denis Vlasenko
2005-05-13 12:27   ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-05-13 12:43     ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-05-13 20:36       ` Bill Davidsen
2005-05-13 20:47         ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-05-13 21:07           ` Chris Friesen
2005-05-13 21:22             ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-05-13 23:10               ` David Lang
2005-05-13 21:24           ` Alan Cox [this message]
2005-05-14  9:09           ` christos gentsis
2005-05-14  9:46             ` jnf
2005-05-14 10:37               ` christos gentsis
2005-05-14 10:20             ` Willy Tarreau
2005-05-15 20:25           ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-05-13 14:37 ` DervishD
2005-05-13 15:19   ` randy_dunlap
2005-05-13 15:24     ` DervishD
2005-05-13 16:11 ` Alan Cox
2005-05-15 16:20 ` Helge Hafting
2005-05-16  2:09   ` Paul Jakma
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-05-14 12:46 Matthew Geier
2005-05-14 20:27 ` christos gentsis
2005-05-14 21:19   ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-05-15  1:04     ` Gene Heskett
     [not found] <43GQ7-5qy-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-05-14 13:41 ` Bodo Eggert <harvested.in.lkml@posting.7eggert.dyndns.org>

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