Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 11:18:01 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Beattie <beattie@aracnet.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CMOS clock won't do 2000 Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10002131113120.23811-100000@shell1.aracnet.com> In-Reply-To: <200002130858.BAA62668@harmony.village.org>
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On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <Pine.LNX.4.10.10002121248470.12446-100000@shell1.aracnet.com> 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.
>
I'm hopeing to run picobsd-router on this machine so adding extra
executables may not be possible. I grabbed the y2k test/fix from the BIOS
site (Phoenix bought Award). I includes a windoze95 fix, that seems to
adjust the clock on boot by running something from config.sys.
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