Subject: Re: CVS commit: basesrc
To: None <source-changes@netbsd.org>
From: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.de>
List: source-changes
Date: 01/06/2000 08:22:08
In article <200001060057.LAA21979@balrog.supp.cpr.itg.telecom.com.au>,
Simon Burge <simonb@netbsd.org> writes:
>> Unix system time starts in 1970 and not in 1969.
>
> Is this entirely true - ie is the time local or UTC?
It's about Y2k time windowing. With my patch 69 gets 2069 instead of 1969
which isn't a valid Unix time except for a few hours.
You can still address those few hours if you use "1969" explicitly.
Kind regards
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Matthias Scheler http://www.sighardstrasse.de/~tron/