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I looked at my OLD Power Mac MT (mobo fabbed in 1997) and it HAS a dead |
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battery. It resets to Jan 1, 1970 every reboot. Basic point: I do not think |
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it will "keep time" if the batter is dead. |
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Anyway, glad you have it fixed! |
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Au revoir, |
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Ben Ricker |
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On 2/14/06, Y-Lan Boureau <blauenote@×××××.fr> wrote: |
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> Actually someone just told me that the clock always works even if the |
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> battery is dead, so it means nothing that time is passing :-( |
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> Hope it's not the case though. |
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> *Y-Lan Boureau <blauenote@×××××.fr>* a écrit : |
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> *Ben Ricker <ben.ricker@×××××.com>* a écrit : Note that this can als |
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> indicate that the Mobo battery that keeps the time synced when the power is |
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> off may be dead. |
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> No no, today we are April 14th, 1976, and four days ago was April 10th, |
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> 1976, so time is actually kept :-) |
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> Thanks everyone, I'll try tonight as soon as I have my computer in front |
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> of me. |
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> Cheers, |
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> Y-Lan |
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> But try the hwclock stuff first. |
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> On 2/13/06, Christophe Choumert <christophe.choumert@×××××××××××××.org> |
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> > On Monday 13 February 2006 ! 13:36, Y-Lan Boureau wrote: |
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> > > Does anyone know a fix to this -- either, how I could set correct |
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> > time |
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> > > and date in Open Firmware, or allow Linux to remember its own time and |
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> > > date ? |
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> > The relevant option is in /etc/conf.d/clock : |
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> > # If you want to set the Hardware Clock to the current System Time |
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> > # during shutdown, then say "yes" here. |
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> > CLOCK_SYSTOHC="yes" |
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> > --- |
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> > followed by |
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> > % rc-update add clock boot |
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> > to make sure it runs at boot and halt. |
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> > > cheers, |
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> > > Y-Lan |
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> > Cheers, |
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> > Christophe |
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> > PS: my MacOS X wo! n't boot anymore either, I wish I knew why. |
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> Ben Ricker |
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