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

2008-02-20 Thread Andi Kleen
On Wednesday 20 February 2008 11:07:02 Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > 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

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

2008-02-20 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > 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. Could you please explain what magic math does the 2030 -> 2038 extension

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

2008-02-20 Thread Thomas Gleixner
On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Thomas Gleixner wrote: 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. Could you please explain what magic math does the 2030 - 2038 extension ? According

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

2008-02-20 Thread Andi Kleen
On Wednesday 20 February 2008 11:07:02 Thomas Gleixner wrote: On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Thomas Gleixner wrote: 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. Could you

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

2008-02-16 Thread Thomas Gleixner
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

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

2008-02-16 Thread Thomas Gleixner
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

[PATCH] [2/5] Use 2000 offset for 32bit kernels

2008-02-09 Thread Andi Kleen
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

[PATCH] [2/5] Use 2000 offset for 32bit kernels

2008-02-09 Thread Andi Kleen
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