Re: hwclock

[Jan M.Dziewulski <jan@dziewulski.com>]

--On Friday, June 09 2000, 12:29:41 Russell Hires rhires@earthlink.net wrote:

>> Macs have a generic problem, it's called
>> 'No-one-knows-how-the-friggin-box-works'. There is no way to set the Unix
>> time other than having MacOS pass the correct time to the booter, and
>> there's no way to set the hw clock from Linux.
>
>Well, from this, it appears that maybe we could get the time out of the
>PRAM--do 68k macs have PRAM? I know, low priority. Someday I'll be able to
>make more contribution...<sigh>
Yes, they do.

>> If that version of MacOS has a y2k problem, you need to fix either kernel
>> or booter to handle the broken time format.
>>
>
>Macs never had a Y2K problem... ;-)
32-bit Macs do. Not yet, but in 203x, they will.

 -Jan