Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 21:49:35 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Yoriaki FUJIMORI <fujimori@grafin.fujimori.cache.waseda.ac.jp> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: funny clock on some alphas Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0102222148290.52810-100000@beppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <200102230542.OAA26957@grafin.fujimori.cache.waseda.ac.jp>
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Yes- we've noticed this. On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Yoriaki FUJIMORI wrote: > Folks, > At the beginining of January, I asked about a possible y2k problem > on some alpha boxes. The problem is that the machie date is set to > year 2000 and not year 2001 after shutdown. > I first experienced this on old alphapc164. I thought that SRM of that > box is not good. > # I remember someone from Germany wrote the same complaint here. > > These few days I have been playing around a new up1100 based alpha box > with FreeBSD 4.2R. UP1100 has got a new SRM, that has got a command > `date' in SRM itself---we can set the date as > >>> date 200102231430.40 > > When I rebooted the system I noticed that the date is reset to 2000! > When I ran SuSE7.0(Linux) on that beast, no problem like that. > The problem seems to be solely specific to FreeBSD/Alpha. > Now, I come to believe that some of codes related to shutdown process > may not be y2k compliant. Umm... Did you file a PR? I need to 'own' this at some point to remember to chase this down... Might be a shutdown problem. -matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the messagehome | help
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