Hi Tim,
I observed that my 486 boots with an arbitrary
date. But i have modified the date command in the
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit file. So that each time I supply
it the current date. And I am using the PC on a
separate LAN of three PC's. So I think it won't affect
my regular experiments. I will try it out.
Thanks
SUJIT
--- TimO <hairballmt@mcn.net> wrote:
> Heh, my old 486 has a similar problem. If your
> machine boots with
> 'arbitrary' or lagging dates, then your cmos battery
> is probably going dead
> and needs replacement. After that is corrected and
> your machine always
> boots with the year '1994' after setting it to
> 2000(as mine does); you need
> to set the cmos clock to '1972' (has the same days
> as 2000) and add the
> line:
>
> date --set='+28 years'
>
> to your init scripts. This will make your 486
> 'usable' under Linux/GNU for
> another 27 years. But, then, YMMV. ;-)
>
> I had just left it at '1994' but it isn't a leap
> year and as such will fail
> after Feb 28. Unfortunately, if you dual boot with
> Microsoft, there is no
> way (that I know of) to obtain equivalent results.
> Setting the time with
> Microsoft will also reset the cmos clock and result
> in bogus time again.
> If you have a 'flash' bios, you may also check to
> see if there is an update
> available which corrects the problem.
>
> --- Tim
>
> Sujit Vaidya wrote:
> >
> > Hi Borek,
> > Thanks for your guidence. When i use the
> date
> > and the hwclock commands the dates change. But
> when i
> > reboot the machine it takes some arbitrary date.
> > THis time it said at boot time
> > System Clock: 21 Jul 07:20 EDT 1992
> > Any pointers..
> >
> > THanks
> >
> > SUJIT VAIDYA
> >
> > --- Borek Lupomesky <Borek.Lupomesky@ujep.cz>
> wrote:
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> > > Hash: SHA1
> > >
> > > On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Sujit Vaidya wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi Borek,
> > > > It might be a trivial question, but i
> > > would
> > > > appreciate if you could guide me with regards
> to
> > > "HOW
> > > > TO SET THE REAL TIME CLOCK"
> > > > I changed the date on my machine using
> the
> > > > date command. And the kernel compiles fine.
> But
> > > when i
> > > > boot the system it again shows
> > > > system clock set to JAN **, 1994.
> > >
> > > Using the date(1) command:
> > >
> > > date --set="Jan 25 7:24"
> > >
> > > Then you should write the system clock to
> your
> > > CMOS (backup) clock
> > > using:
> > >
> > > hwclock --systohc
> > >
>
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