Subject: Re: axppci y2k?
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@netbsd.org>
List: port-alpha
Date: 07/26/1999 09:26:19
Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> writes:
> On Mon, 26 Jul 1999 09:37:56 -0400 (EDT)
> der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA> wrote:
> > How is this relevant, considering that the hardware in question has
> > *never* run OSF/1, Digital UNIX, or Tru64 UNIX, as far as I know? Most
> > certainly not since the console code was switched from ARC to SRM;
>
> The SRM console may expect the NVRAM to have the date in its native
> OS's format...
And, if this is the case, then we should almost certainly switch our
date format, because SRM is the console we have to appease.
cgd
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