From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 10 15:03:33 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-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 E859416A41F for ; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 15:03:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from mxout2.cac.washington.edu (mxout2.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7261243D8A for ; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 15:03:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from youshi10@u.washington.edu) Received: from smtp.washington.edu (smtp.washington.edu [140.142.32.139]) by mxout2.cac.washington.edu (8.13.5+UW05.10/8.13.5+UW05.09) with ESMTP id k0AF31Wn021389 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK) for ; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 07:03:01 -0800 X-Auth-Received: from [192.168.0.23] (dsl254-013-145.sea1.dsl.speakeasy.net [216.254.13.145]) (authenticated authid=youshi10) by smtp.washington.edu (8.13.5+UW05.10/8.13.5+UW05.09) with ESMTP id k0AF30hi005774 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 10 Jan 2006 07:03:01 -0800 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v746.2) In-Reply-To: <1136881768.591.1.camel@p4-3200.local> References: <20060110090130.67517.qmail@ssr.com> <1136881768.591.1.camel@p4-3200.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Garrett Cooper Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 07:03:54 -0800 To: FreeBSD Questions X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.746.2) X-Uwash-Spam: Gauge=IIIIIII, Probability=7%, Report='__CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __HAS_X_MAILER 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0' 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 15:03:34 -0000 On Jan 10, 2006, at 12:29 AM, Andreas Rudisch wrote: > On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 09:01 +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. >> >> Thanks, >> Scott > > Just an idea, but maybe the BIOS battery ran out of power and needs to > be replaced. > > Andreas > > -- > GnuPG key : 0x2A573565 | http://cyb.websimplex.de/pubkey.asc > Fingerprint: 925D 2089 0BF9 8DE5 9166 33BB F0FD CD37 2A57 3565 Interesting though. Usually clocks get set back to 1972, or somewhere around that era. -Garrett