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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Support epoch of 1980 in RTC emulation for MIPS
From: |
Stuart Brady |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Support epoch of 1980 in RTC emulation for MIPS Magnum |
Date: |
Sat, 17 Jan 2009 01:39:19 +0000 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 10:47:33AM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <address@hidden>
> Stuart Brady <address@hidden> writes:
> : I've not modified the handling of the century byte, as I'm not entirely
> : sure what's required. With an epoch of 1980 and a year of 2009, you
> : could argue that the century byte should hold either 0, 1, 19 or 20.
>
> What does WinNT/mips expect?
I've been informed that WinNT 3.50/MIPS does not read the century byte,
and I expect that other versions do the same, as an epoch of 1980 will
won't break until 2080.
Cheers,
--
Stuart Brady