Re: date and time set to April 1976

Ben Ricker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.gentoo.ppc
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Note that this can als indicate that the Mobo battery that keeps the time
synced when the power is off may be dead.

But try the hwclock stuff first.

On 2/13/06, Christophe Choumert <[email protected]>
wrote:
>
> On Monday 13 February 2006 13:36, Y-Lan Boureau wrote:
> >   Does anyone know a fix to this -- either, how I could set correct time
> > and date in Open Firmware, or allow Linux to remember its own time and
> > date ?
>
> The relevant option is in /etc/conf.d/clock :
> ---
> # If you want to set the Hardware Clock to the current System Time
> # during shutdown, then say "yes" here.
>
> CLOCK_SYSTOHC="yes"
> ---
>
> followed by
> % rc-update add clock boot
> to make sure it runs at boot and halt.
>
> >   cheers,
> >   Y-Lan
>
> Cheers,
> Christophe
>
> PS: my MacOS X won't boot anymore either, I wish I knew why.
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