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Date:      Thu, 20 Nov 1997 09:25:46 +0100
From:      j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
To:        freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Tell the world about Year 2000 Compliance
Message-ID:  <19971120092546.SP19499@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.90.971119171242.22762E-100000@stretch.cs.Virginia.edu>; from Adrian T. Filipi-Martin on Nov 19, 1997 17:19:07 -0500
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971119152857.8550A-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> <Pine.SUN.3.90.971119171242.22762E-100000@stretch.cs.Virginia.edu>

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As Adrian T. Filipi-Martin wrote:

> 	I have yet to see any mention of dealing with BIOS limitations.  
> What does a prefectly happy FreeBSD box think when it is rebooted after 
> the BIOS has rolled over?  It has to trust the clock of course, which is 
> wrong!

At least, you could look into the code first.  It does already do an
``educated guess'' about whether the CMOS is before or after 2000.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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