On 11/23/2014 05:27 AM, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > 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 > Thanks for your time and input Benno! -- 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
