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From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
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Subject: Re: alpha/36390: cvsup core dumps on FreeBSD/Alpha 4.5-RELEASE
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On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 02:26:19PM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> 
> Wilko Bulte writes:
>  > On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 02:18:27PM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
>  > > 
>  > > John Polstra writes:
>  > >  > 
>  > >  > Off the list Nicholas told me a few minutes ago that the date on the
>  > >  > Alpha was set to the year 1912.  That was the cause of the problem (an
>  > >  > overflow in a date calculation).
>  > > 
>  > > Ah, sounds like a job for clock_compat_osf1.
>  > > 
>  > > Nicholas - if you're dual booting between FreeBSD & Tru64, try putting
>  > > clock_compat_osf1=1 
>  > > into /boot/loader.conf
>  > 
>  > Drew, is there any reason to not have this as default?
> 
> Making it the default would cause needless pain & suffering for our
> entire installed base, as their clocks would suddenly be wrong.

Hum, bah. Isn't there a way to determine if the clock value is sensible?
I mean, 1912 is not. 

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