Re: Wrong timestamps in vax test results

Den 2026-04-11 kl. 13:39, skrev Martin Husemann:
> On Sat, Apr 11, 2026 at 12:36:56PM +0200, Johnny Billquist wrote:
>> You need to set the clock, using ntp, or a command, or whatever. VAXen in
>> general do not have an external clock that tells absolute time.
>> There is a clock that runs when power is off, but it only keeps track of
>> time for about a year before it wraps (it's a simple counter). So time gets
>> set based on when the system was shut down, and what this counter then
>> tells.
> "when the system was shut down" is the superblock timestamp in ffs?
> This does not exist, the disk image is (virtually) all zeros.
>
> How can we fix this when booting from an ISO image?
>
> We could do some stupid hack like have sysinst check for dates before it
> was build and if clock is that far in the past, ask the user for manual
> time setup (and anita could then react to those prompts).
In the beginning it was A GIANT WARNING IN CAPS when booting, telling 
the user that TODR was not correct.
Have this changed lately?  Otherwise that warning maybe can be used to 
trigger something?

-- R