> Hi all,
>
> since 2.1.3 my BIOS clock stops when I power off the system.
> (ie. rebooting shows clock being set to last power off time
> instead of correct time).
> Is it just a faulted battery or a new kernel feature ? (or my
> brother trying some new Win95 or DOS game doing funny things
> to the BIOS... ?) TIA,
>
> --alessandro
I have a different problem. My clock always (or used to always,
I don't look anymore) go to the year 1933/2033. Some software
thought it was 1933, some 2033. I suspect one or the other date
was generated using two fixed digits (ie at 19 or 20) and the
other is the "correct" interpretation.
But no matter, now I maintain the time by saving it in a file
every two minutes and restoring it on reboot (using ntp to
correct, but I'm worried mostly about monotonicity). Not hard;
but if anyone wants the scripts..
I still don't know if this was Linux, my IBM 483DX-33 hardware,
or the clock battery, but "it's fixed in software now, so who
cares if the hardware works." ... It may have booted the correct
time the last 30 boots; I haven't checked the BIOS time recently.
But, it no longer gives checksum errors every boot, so it may
have "healed". If you ignore a problem long enough ...
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