Re: Y2K

[Michael Schmitz <schmitz@mail.biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de>]

> > BTW, where does this mktime() call come from, two people reported
> > problems with this? I have no mktime executable and I did not see it in
> > the kernel sources at first glance.
> 
> I notice two lines at startup saying "mktime failed" .. or something. I
> wonder where this comes form.

That's a message from hwclock and means the system call to set the system
time failed. It does this on Mac especially because the kernel doesn't
know how to set the time. If your problem wasn't on a Mac, there would be
another problem either in the kernel or in hwclock. 

	Michael