Re: *** Draft 6 - Press Release ***

Gregory Maxwell (linker@z.ml.org)
Fri, 22 Jan 1999 16:47:36 -0500 (EST)


On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Jamie Lokier wrote:

> [Related - does Linux work around BIOSes and/or hardware clocks that
> don't roll over the century at Y2K? It will be bad if lots of PCs
> are powered down on Dec 31st, powered up on Jan 1st, and the Linux ones
> are the ones reporting Jan 01, 1900 while the MS ones get the time right].

It does, as of kernel 1.3.x I think.

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