Suggestions? Stop drinking alcohol publically (or move to Canada), buy a
nice plaid hat and start talking about a "New Deal"
  
  Seriously: I think we need to 
	a) make time_t a quad_t, at least in parts of the kernel. 
	b) make sure that we sanity check what we load from the BIOS.

  I can try to do something about (b) this evening and build you a new 
kernel...

  I suspect you lock up because any routine that was waiting on a timed
event gets confused when the time calculation overflows.
  What if you do the following:
	# year=2060
	# while true
	do
		echo Now warping you to $year
		date $year08041620
		sleep 5
		year=`expr $year - 5`
	done

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