From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 10 11:52:02 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 56DE616A41F for ; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 11:52:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marko@freebsd.org) Received: from pih-relay05.plus.net (pih-relay05.plus.net [212.159.14.132]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E60ED43D46 for ; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 11:51:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marko@freebsd.org) Received: from [80.229.231.20] (helo=[192.168.1.4]) by pih-relay05.plus.net with esmtp (Exim) id 1EwI2c-0005D9-0R for questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 11:51:54 +0000 Message-ID: <43C3A015.5010004@freebsd.org> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 11:52:53 +0000 From: Mark Ovens User-Agent: Mail/News 1.6a1 (X11/20051228) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org References: <20060110090130.67517.qmail@ssr.com> In-Reply-To: <20060110090130.67517.qmail@ssr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: Re: System time suddenly changed after reboot. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 11:52:02 -0000 Scott Ballantyne wrote: > Running 5.3-RELEASE. > > After many years of using FreeBSD, and as many reboots or more, I had > occasion to reboot today, and a few hours later discovered to my > horror that the system time had suddenly been moved ahead to the year > 2020! > > I did the best I could with the resulting mess, but I am curious if > anyone else has seen this, or what would cause it. This is the same > hardware I have been running for a couple of years now, and I haven't > changed anything in the bios or system. > I had that problem back with early versions of 5.x - up to 5.3 IIRC - except that it happened with 9 out of 10 reboots for me. After weeks of trying to solve the problem it turned out to be the keyboard!!1 Yes, the fscking keyboard. It's a Compaq USB and I'm guessing that there is something non-standard about it (it won't work when connected to a PS/2 port via an adaptor for instance). Don't know whether this helps you. Regards, Mark