From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 13 0:57:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.49]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 284AB4053 for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2000 00:57:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA58797; Sun, 13 Feb 2000 01:57:14 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.9.3/8.8.3) with ESMTP id BAA62668; Sun, 13 Feb 2000 01:58:45 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200002130858.BAA62668@harmony.village.org> To: Brian Beattie Subject: Re: CMOS clock won't do 2000 Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 12 Feb 2000 12:57:46 PST." References: Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 01:58:45 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message Brian Beattie writes: : 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. ntpdate on boot is what we use in the village for this sort of thing. We run ntp at other times. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message