Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 19:59:38 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Brian Beattie <beattie@aracnet.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CMOS clock won't do 2000 Message-ID: <38A61E1A.8DA94C8C@softweyr.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10002121248470.12446-100000@shell1.aracnet.com>
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Brian Beattie wrote:
>
> I have an older 486 system, running 3.4R that has a cmos clock that seems
> to be unwilling to accept years out side the range 94-99. The bios seems
> willing to set dates between 1994-2099, but after reboot any year not
> between 94-99 is converted to {20,19}94.
>
> What I have done is to go into i386/isa/clock.c and in the routines
> inittodr, resettodr, is to add 6 to and subtract 6 from the years
> respectively. I was wondering if anybody had any better ideas.
Is the clock chip socketed? Are BIOS updates available for the motherboard?
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