Gentoo Archives: gentoo-ppc-user

From: Ben Ricker <ben.ricker@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-ppc-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] date and time set to April 1976
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 00:06:27
Message-Id: 2d0247c00602141604mb4199cbn6fdcaee7470e2742@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] date and time set to April 1976 by Y-Lan Boureau
1 I looked at my OLD Power Mac MT (mobo fabbed in 1997) and it HAS a dead
2 battery. It resets to Jan 1, 1970 every reboot. Basic point: I do not think
3 it will "keep time" if the batter is dead.
4
5 Anyway, glad you have it fixed!
6
7 Au revoir,
8
9 Ben Ricker
10
11 On 2/14/06, Y-Lan Boureau <blauenote@×××××.fr> wrote:
12 >
13 > Actually someone just told me that the clock always works even if the
14 > battery is dead, so it means nothing that time is passing :-(
15 > Hope it's not the case though.
16 >
17 > *Y-Lan Boureau <blauenote@×××××.fr>* a écrit :
18 >
19 >
20 > *Ben Ricker <ben.ricker@×××××.com>* a écrit : Note that this can als
21 > indicate that the Mobo battery that keeps the time synced when the power is
22 > off may be dead.
23 >
24 > No no, today we are April 14th, 1976, and four days ago was April 10th,
25 > 1976, so time is actually kept :-)
26 >
27 > Thanks everyone, I'll try tonight as soon as I have my computer in front
28 > of me.
29 >
30 > Cheers,
31 >
32 > Y-Lan
33 >
34 >
35 >
36 >
37 >
38 > But try the hwclock stuff first.
39 >
40 > On 2/13/06, Christophe Choumert <christophe.choumert@×××××××××××××.org>
41 > wrote:
42 > >
43 > > On Monday 13 February 2006 ! 13:36, Y-Lan Boureau wrote:
44 > > > Does anyone know a fix to this -- either, how I could set correct
45 > > time
46 > > > and date in Open Firmware, or allow Linux to remember its own time and
47 > > > date ?
48 > >
49 > > The relevant option is in /etc/conf.d/clock :
50 > > ---
51 > > # If you want to set the Hardware Clock to the current System Time
52 > > # during shutdown, then say "yes" here.
53 > >
54 > > CLOCK_SYSTOHC="yes"
55 > > ---
56 > >
57 > > followed by
58 > > % rc-update add clock boot
59 > > to make sure it runs at boot and halt.
60 > >
61 > > > cheers,
62 > > > Y-Lan
63 > >
64 > > Cheers,
65 > > Christophe
66 > >
67 > > PS: my MacOS X wo! n't boot anymore either, I wish I knew why.
68 > > --
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70 > >
71 > >
72 >
73 >
74 > --
75 > Ben Ricker
76 > He's just this guy, you know?
77 >
78 >
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