On Wed, Oct 31, John Goerzen wrote:
> Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > As far as I understand it clock from powerpc-utils is obsolete and you can
> > use hwclock on all machines (including PReP machines?). Does that mean you
> > will remove the clock program from powerpc-utils?
>
> I'm not so sure this is true. I've had terrible trouble with hwclock
> setting the CMOS clock to either 1903 or 1933. It seems to cause
> significant problems in this area. The clock program works fine.
I see that with ntpdate, but not with netdate. When you have a hard
crash and the time jumps back to 1904 its only possible to set the time
correctly with netdate. Never tried hwclock to set the time, but hwclock
works on all supported boxes with recent kernels, even 2.2.
Gruss Olaf
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