Re: timewarp to 2052 (potato on alpha)
Are you running 2 CPUS ??
Stefano
On Fri, 26 May 2000, Tim Shepard wrote:
>
> I just installed potato on a fresh-out-of-the-box DS20E.
>
> IIRC, when it asked me whether or not the system time is kept in UTC
> (and I answered affirmatively) it was displaying the correct date and
> time (including the year, 2000). That was amusing. The system
> hwclock time was correctly set to UTC as it came out of the box (or
> does the boot floppy go and set the time off of the net somewhere).
>
> However, later on (after a few reboots where I was messing with the
> SRM stuff to make this thing auto-boot Debian by clearing boot_file
> and setting boot_flags to the digit 0 so that aboot will choose the 0
> option in /etc/aboot.conf), I noticed the date was wrong. It was in
> the year 2052.
>
> I just checked on another DP264 machine on which I installed a fresh copy
> of debian potato a couple of weeks ago, and it was in the year 2048!
> (That machine was running red-hat 6.0 before I installed potato.)
>
> I did this:
>
> sudo date 052617022000
> sudo hwclock --systohc
> sudo rm /etc/adjtime
> sudo shutdown -r now
>
> on both machines. That seems to have fixed it for now.
>
>
> Why doesn't a fresh install of debian potato get this right?
> Or did I do something wrong when I did the install?
> (I do not recall ever being given the opportunity to set the time
> though I do remember it showing me the time when it asked whether or
> not the system time was to be kept in UTC.)
>
> I have another pristine DS20E still in its cardboard box which I will
> likely install Debian potato on within the next week. Let me know
> if you want any experiments done (like somehow reading the hwclock
> before anything else has had a chance to touch it).
>
> (I did once take a peek at the code in the kernel that tries to pick
> an epoch. Bleh. So I do realize that this is an ongoing complication
> of linux on alpha. I'm suspicous that the problem got worse after
> January of this year because one of the magic epoch-choosing windows
> flipped into a different window, but it has been a few months since I
> peeked at that code.)
>
> -Tim Shepard
> shep@lcs.mit.edu
>
>
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