From owner-cvs-all Tue Jan 4 3:39:23 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4D3115116; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 03:39:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bde@zeta.org.au) Received: from bde.zeta.org.au (beefcake.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.12]) by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA31606; Tue, 4 Jan 2000 22:39:02 +1100 Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2000 22:39:01 +1100 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-Sender: bde@alphplex.bde.org To: Peter Wemm Cc: mjacob@feral.com, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/dec mcclock.c In-Reply-To: <20000104071255.D2B501CC6@overcee.netplex.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Tue, 4 Jan 2000, Peter Wemm wrote: > (In the code below, USE_RTC_CENTURY is never defined) > > Hmm, it looks like we have another 'prior art' to shoot down the y2k > windowing patent. We've used the 1970 window since at least as far > back as 1994. It was "intented" and patented in Feb 1995: > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/1999-12/17/081l-121799-idx.html It was in rev.1.1 in 1993 and probably in the patchkit in 1992. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message