From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 3 23:41:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (storm.freebsd.org.uk [194.242.128.198]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C830714DB0 for ; Sun, 3 Oct 1999 23:41:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by storm.FreeBSD.org.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA22250; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 07:41:03 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost.lan.Awfulhak.org [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id HAA00521; Mon, 4 Oct 1999 07:25:17 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <199910040625.HAA00521@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Jaye Mathisen Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Speeding up time... In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 30 Sep 1999 01:12:26 PDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 04 Oct 1999 07:25:17 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I would like to play around with some y2k testing. > > While setting dates and such works, I'd really like to > be able to disable xntpd, and have time move faster. So > I could set the date to 12/28/99 or somesuch, and > have time run at 4:1 or 10:1, or something that lets > me run through a few days of operation in a few hours... > > > Is there an obviously trivial way to do this? I think you can get away with simply tweaking machdep.i8254_freq (if you're using that counter that is). -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message