On Sat, 16 May 2009 12:08:21 +0200 Børge Holen <holen.bo...@gmail.com> wrote:
BH> Same thing that happens when one forget to compile in rtc? BH> Done that a few times. BH> BH> On 16. mai. 2009, at 09.47, Rogério Brito <rbr...@ime.usp.br> wrote: BH> BH> > Hi, Mark. BH> > BH> > On May 16 2009, Mark Purcell wrote: BH> >> + hwclock --set --date 2009-5-16 BH> > BH> > I have always done something like that with my system, since BH> > openbsd's nntpd doesn't seem to be able to update the time BH> > initially when it is too far from the current date. BH> > BH> > A more flexible solution (while still quick'n'dirty) would be to BH> > put the BH> > date of the last shutdown in a given file and, in the hwclock BH> > script, see if it such a file (like, say, the files in BH> > /etc/default/) is readable and update the clock from that, while, BH> > otherwise, falling back BH> > to a date like yours. I recall from long ago (ca. 2004) when I had an iBook (G3) that was dual boot (Debian and Mac OSX) that if I booted to Debian without a network connection when the previous boot was to OSX, then the time went to 1904. My guess then was that the 2 systems had different origins for the H/W clock, and if there was no ntpdate to fix it, then the system clock was set from an h/w clock in a different format (I don't recall a corresponding problem going the other way (no 2104 date). -- +------------------------+-------------------------------+---------+ | James Tappin | School of Physics & Astronomy | O__ | | s...@star.sr.bham.ac.uk | University of Birmingham | -- \/` | | Ph: 0121-414-6462. Fax: 0121-414-3722 | | +--------------------------------------------------------+---------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
