Hello JWP, On Sat, Nov 22, 2014, at 22:20, JWP wrote: > For example, do we need a workaround for the 1994 Award BIOS > bug? In my opinion machines with that BIOS are too old. So no. Also because I wondered a few times about this phrase: > hwclock warns you that you probably need --badyear whenever it > finds your Hardware Clock set to 1994 or 1995. Nowhere in the source of hwclock can I find this warning. But it has been there in 2000, because this user reports having gotten it: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/alt.lang.basic/ilp_6HwLvZE/sE1nBoiD_LcJ Since no one ever complained that the above phrase in the man page is incorrect, it most likely means that no one uses such machines any more. Benno -- http://www.fastmail.com - Choose from over 50 domains or use your own -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe util-linux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
