From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 13 11:13:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail4.aracnet.com (mail4.aracnet.com [216.99.193.36]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C9483F11 for ; Sun, 13 Feb 2000 11:13:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from shell1.aracnet.com (IDENT:root@shell1.aracnet.com [216.99.193.21]) by mail4.aracnet.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id LAA13276; Sun, 13 Feb 2000 11:14:18 -0800 Received: from localhost by shell1.aracnet.com (8.9.3) id LAA24271; Sun, 13 Feb 2000 11:18:01 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: shell1.aracnet.com: beattie owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 11:18:01 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Beattie To: Warner Losh Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CMOS clock won't do 2000 In-Reply-To: <200002130858.BAA62668@harmony.village.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Warner Losh wrote: > 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. > 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. Brian Beattie | The only problem with beattie@aracnet.com | winning the rat race ... www.aracnet.com/~beattie | in the end you're still a rat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message