From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 23 01:58:39 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id BAA29016 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 23 Jun 1995 01:58:39 -0700 Received: from cs.huji.ac.il (cs.huji.ac.il [132.65.16.10]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id BAA28986 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 1995 01:56:42 -0700 Received: from picton.cs.huji.ac.il by cs.huji.ac.il with SMTP id AA15484 (5.67b/HUJI 4.153 for ); Fri, 23 Jun 1995 11:53:46 +0300 Received: by picton.cs.huji.ac.il with SMTP id AA05814 (5.65c/HUJI 4.114 for ); Fri, 23 Jun 1995 11:53:43 +0300 Message-Id: <199506230853.AA05814@picton.cs.huji.ac.il> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers Mailing List) Subject: Re: Check the date and time at boot In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 23 Jun 1995 12:29:29 +0930 (CST) . <199506230259.MAA27792@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> From: Amos Shapira Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 11:53:42 +0300 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Michael Smith wrote: |I'd disagree; not everyone's connected to the 'net. This is similar to |the Sun thing that prints unhappy messages if the root filesystem's |timestamp and the time are out by more than a day or so. I've certainly |been drawn to time problems by that message more than once, so I'd |say that it was a plus. I'd second that. I can't afford an open PPP line for the entire duration of my PC's operation, nor call some local service to check time (we pay for every 5 minutes even on local calls at prime-time) I'd find such a utility usefull. Cheers, --Amos --Amos Shapira | "Of course Australia was marked for 133 Shlomo Ben-Yosef st. | glory, for its people had been chosen Jerusalem 93 805 | by the finest judges in England." ISRAEL amoss@cs.huji.ac.il | -- Anonymous