From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 9 21:42:19 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 274F516A468 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2007 21:42:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie) Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5655513C489 for ; Mon, 9 Jul 2007 21:42:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie) Received: from walton.maths.tcd.ie ([134.226.81.10] helo=walton.maths.tcd.ie) by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 9 Jul 2007 22:42:17 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2007 22:42:16 +0100 From: David Malone To: Ivan Voras Message-ID: <20070709214216.GA72912@walton.maths.tcd.ie> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i Sender: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Debugging times X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2007 21:42:19 -0000 On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 11:25:46PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: > The date is set wrong either on boot or very early after the kernel has > booted (I've verified it's wrong before hostid rc.d script, which is one > of the first to be executed). I have some patches to make the code that reads the date from the bios print errors if there is a problem parsing the date. I was going to commit them to -current, but it might be useful for you to test them? David.