Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2001 10:16:05 -0500 From: "John E.P. Hynes" <john@hytronix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Alpha PC164 Clock not Y2K Compliant? Message-ID: <01030610160500.11112@tatewaki>
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Hello All, I'm new to the list (but I've been using FreeBSD on a number of machines for quite some time.) I recently installed FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE on an Alpha for the first time (all my other boxes are x86) and I noticed that if I use "date" to set the clock to March 6, 2001, after the next reboot the kernel complains that the clock lost 365 days, and indeed, the time/day is correct, but the year shows up as 2000. Currently, I just run ntpdate before ntpd loads, and all is well. Is there a known Y2K issue with the clock chips on the PC164 Motherboard, or could there be an issue with the way the "date" command updates the hardware clock? -John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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