Y2K na 486 & Award BIOS

[Stanislav Meduna]

On 7 Jan 2000 06:49:57 +0100, Miroslav BENES wrote:

:> BTW, pozrite si volbu --badyear v hwclock - nie je to
:> nahodou presne co potrebujete?

: Bohuzel man o teto volbe mlci (RedHat 6.1cz, util-linux-2.9o-13, 
: hwclock 2.4c/util-linux 2.9n). Od ktere verze je to dostupne a co to 
: umi ?

RedHat 6.1 (oficialny + updaty dostupne niekedy koncom
decembra), hwclock 2.4c/util-linux 2.9w (rpm hlasi
build date 9. septembra). V manuali to navrchu
v synopsis nie je, az niekde dole.

       --badyear
              Indicates  that  the Hardware Clock is incapable of
              storing years outside the range  1994-1999.   There
              is  a  problem  in  some  BIOSes  (almost all Award
              BIOSes made between 4/26/94  and  5/31/95)  wherein
              they  are unable to deal with years after 1999.  If
              one attempts to set the  year-of-century  value  to
              something  less  than 94 (or 95 in some cases), the
              value that actually gets set is 94 (or 95).   Thus,
              ...
                         When hwclock knows it's working  with  a
              brain-damaged  clock,  it  ignores the year part of
              the Hardware Clock value and instead tries to guess
              the  year  based on the last calibrated date in the
              adjtime file, by assuming that that date is  within
              the past year.

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