In message <199910102343.TAA25124@metsny.yossi.com>Yoseff Francus writes

>Is the DS 5000/125 bios Y2K compliant? I am running netbsd 1.4 on it.

It's as Y2K compilant as it can be.

Note that the BIOS has no idea of the complete date.  It has a `valid'
bit for the Dallas clock, but it uses it only as a time-of-year
clock. If at poweron, the PROM finds the Dallas clock is not in either
1972 or 1973, the PROM resets the clock.

That's why we have to pull the year out of hte filesystem at boot, and
treat the clock as a time-of-year clock only.  Ugly, but it does mean
there are no r2k issues with the PROM.