From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: from out4-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.28]:46889 "EHLO out4-smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750704AbaKWK1O (ORCPT ); Sun, 23 Nov 2014 05:27:14 -0500 Received: from compute3.internal (compute3.nyi.internal [10.202.2.43]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id B714D20393 for ; Sun, 23 Nov 2014 05:27:13 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <1416738433.2192551.194323673.28884C59@webmail.messagingengine.com> From: Benno Schulenberg To: JWP Cc: Karel Zak , "util-linux" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain In-Reply-To: <5470FE32.9030805@gmx.com> References: <5470FE32.9030805@gmx.com> Subject: Re: RFC hwclock: refactoring Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2014 11:27:13 +0100 Sender: util-linux-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 -- http://www.fastmail.com - Choose from over 50 domains or use your own