Y2K, UP2000, RH6.1

[Thomas Weyergraf <kirk colinet de>]

Funny little story:

on Dec 21, last century, I turned off all machines to make sure, I do not run into any Y2K
issues. On Jan, 1st, I brought them all up, watching carefully what happened to the
various RTC's in the Systems. All went fine but......

The UP2000, running RH 6.1 jumped 52 years to 2052. Before anyone starts responding, keep
in mind, that:
1. No, this has never happened before on THIS system.
2. Yes, I compiled in RTC support ( CONFIG_RTC ) to avoid the 'known-alpha-jumps-time' bug.

While a simple 'date' setting the correct date followed by a 'hwclock -systohc' solved the
'problem', I find it amusing, that the most modern system at my site ( UP2000 ) running the latest
OS ( RH 6.1 Alpha ) showed this problem.

Any ideas ?

Anyway, I hope you find this as amusing as i did 8-)

Greetings,
Kirk



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Thomas Weyergraf                                                kirk@colinet.de