Re: Linux & Y2K

[Mike Schmitz <mschmitz@coinet.com>]

On Sun, Jun 21, 1998 at 11:03:18PM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
> 
> >> "t" == timothy  <timothy@smasher.rs.itd.umich.edu> writes:
> 
> t> How will Debian & other distributions handle Y2K on older computers 
> t> which don't
> t> have a Y2K safe BIOS?
> 
> Check http://www.debian.org/news.html#19980104
> 
> Ciao,
> 	Martin

Actually he was asking about the BIOS.  It should be fairly easy to create a
hack at boot (when the system clock is initialized) to make any adjustments 
necessary to the data from the BIOS.

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