linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] [2/5] Use 2000 offset for 32bit kernels

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Date:	Sat, 16 Feb 2008 20:24:37 +0100 (CET)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
cc:	mingo@...e.hu, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [2/5] Use 2000 offset for 32bit kernels

On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:

> 
> We know it is already after 2000.
> 
> This extends the effective lifetime of 32bit systems by 8 years:
> from 2030 to 2038.
> 
> The only drawback is that users cannot set the cmos date to before 2000
> now on 32bit with systems that don't support extended century in 
> the RTC clock. 64bit systems had this limitation for some time
> and nobody complained.
> 
> And they can always set it to such a date in Linux only using date -s 
> if they really want.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>

Applied. Thanks,

	 tglx
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