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Re: minimum specs

To: computerbank@lists.linux.org.au
Subject: Re: minimum specs
From: Ken Yap <ken@nlc.net.au>
Date: Tue, 04 Jan 2000 12:35:41 +1100
Delivery-Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 20:36:26 -0500
In-reply-to: Your message of Tue, 04 Jan 2000 11:27:25 +1000.
Reply-To: ken@nlc.net.au (Ken Yap)
Sender: owner-computerbank@lists.linux.org.au

>Thanks guys - by the way has anyone had any y2k related problems with older (
>ie 486ish) machines
>running linux.  I have a 486 webserver at workand it didn't even hiccup. 

No, you shouldn't. Linux keeps time internally as seconds past 1970-01-01
so no problem is expected with 32 bit time type until 2038 and long
before then we will have moved to 64 bit time type. The only problem
is with clock hardware that stores only 2 year digits and the clock
utilities know how to deal with that.
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ComputerBank Australia -- http://www.computerbank.org.au/

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