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Re: Setting hwclock time




Jack, 

Shaul has replied with reference material, but I had some problems
with setting the hw clock. I got many answers =-- new bios, etc.

Then someone suggested that I reboot with a dos floppy, set the hw
clock to this century and that fixed my problem with two old
machines. 

It is worth a try. Hope this helps.

--David

On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Shaul Karl wrote:

> > I just did a clean install of debian potato on my Toshiba 2100cds. My bios
> > clock reads Thu Jan 4 23:17:51 JST 1990. So when I use dselect to install
> > numerous packages it stalls due to tar archive error that says ...future
> > time stamp..etc.... This is very frustrating since any info, e.g. man pages,
> > haven't been installed yet. I believe that hwclock and date commands should
> > help but I haven't got them to work. and no man pages :-(
> > Question: how can I set my bios clock to this century? or a workaround for
> > the future time stamp error from tar?
> > Thanks for any help
> > Jack Morgan
> > 
> 
> 
> Useful search interfaces to the man pages can be found at:
>  http://linux.wiw.org/doc/man/ and http://linux.com.hk/man/. 
> 
> -- 
> 	
> 	--  Shaul Karl <shaulk@israsrv.net.il>
> 
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--David
David Teague, dbt@cs.wcu.edu
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