David Schleef wrote: > On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 03:44:37PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > > Russell Hires wrote: > > > > > I'm playing with the date command, trying to understand why it doesn't > > > pick up the current time/date from ntpdate/ntpd... > > > > ntpdate sometimes fails when the date is too far off. Setting the date > > manually and then running ntpdate usually works for me. > > I've noticed this as well, after I crash the machine really > hard. The RTC gets set to 1904, and ntpdate doesn't seem to handle > times that are outside the current epoch. Does anyone know if this > is this a limitation or bug with ntpdate or the kernel interface for the > real-time clock?
I just used ntpdate to set the clock to the curent UTC from 0 (jan 1 1970) with out a problem so this problem probably isn't simply related to how far your deviating from the time given by the server. Andy
