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Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2000 19:59:38 -0700
From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
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To: Brian Beattie <beattie@aracnet.com>
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Subject: Re: CMOS clock won't do 2000
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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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Wes Peters                                                         Softweyr LLC
wes@softweyr.com                                           http://softweyr.com/


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