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On 11/23/2014 05:27 AM, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> 
> 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
>
 
Thanks for your time and input Benno!