Date: Sat, 20 Jun 1998 03:26:57 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: andy@tridentgroup.co.uk, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Millennium compliance Message-ID: <199806191726.DAA29339@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>I have a couple of questions regarding Millennium compliance: > >Firstly, does FreeBSD interrogate the RTC chip directly for the >time/date information or the system BIOS instead? This is important It reads the RTC, ignores the century register, and converts year 00 to 2000. Except when configured with the non-default option USE_RTC_CENTURY, it believes the century register and converts (year 00, century 19) to year 1900. >The second question I have is what will happen to FreeBSD if the >computer BIOS is not millennium compliant when the century changes? FreeBSD doesn't change the century register unless it is configured with option USE_RTC_CENTURY, so the century register won't change while FreeBSD is running unless the hardware changes it. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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