From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 3 21:12:10 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA26195 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 3 Jul 1996 21:12:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts13-line3.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.152]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA26190 for ; Wed, 3 Jul 1996 21:12:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id VAA00333; Wed, 3 Jul 1996 21:12:08 -0700 Date: Wed, 3 Jul 1996 21:12:08 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Randy Berndt cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Weird time change on reboot In-Reply-To: <2.2.16.19960703151439.26cfa4b6@nething.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 3 Jul 1996, Randy Berndt wrote: > On one of the reboots of my machine (486/33, 2.0.5R), the date/time went > from Jun 28, 1996, 20:50:52, from the shutdown message to the log, to May > 23, 1929, 14:20:06 (I figure the :06 is boot time) from the system start > message to the log. > Just a fluke, I'd guess. I've known my machine to magically change the date and time and it makes cron real happy :-) If it happens regularly then I'd have your CMOS battery checked. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major