Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Support epoch of 1980 in RTC emulation for MIPS Magnum

[Stuart Brady]

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