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From: Benno Schulenberg <bensberg@justemail.net>
To: JWP <elseifthen@gmx.com>
Cc: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>, "util-linux" <util-linux@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RFC hwclock: refactoring
Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 11:27:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1416738433.2192551.194323673.28884C59@webmail.messagingengine.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5470FE32.9030805@gmx.com>


Hello JWP,

On Sat, Nov 22, 2014, at 22:20, JWP wrote:
> For example, do we need a workaround for the 1994 Award BIOS
> bug?

In my opinion machines with that BIOS are too old.  So no.
Also because I wondered a few times about this phrase:

>               hwclock warns you that you probably need --badyear  whenever  it
>               finds your Hardware Clock set to 1994 or 1995.

Nowhere in the source of hwclock can I find this warning.  But it
has been there in 2000, because this user reports having gotten it:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.lang.basic/ilp_6HwLvZE/sE1nBoiD_LcJ

Since no one ever complained that the above phrase in the man page
is incorrect, it most likely means that no one uses such machines
any more.

Benno

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-11-23 10:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-22 21:20 RFC hwclock: refactoring JWP
2014-11-23 10:27 ` Benno Schulenberg [this message]
2014-11-24  1:56   ` JWP
2014-11-23 13:31 ` Sami Kerola
2014-11-23 15:32   ` Sami Kerola
2014-11-24  1:54     ` JWP
2014-11-24 10:14       ` Karel Zak
2015-02-16  9:02   ` Mike Frysinger
2015-02-16 11:37     ` J William Piggott
2015-02-16 12:32       ` Mike Frysinger

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