Below is a patch that solves some "RPC timed out" problems on Alpha, they were occuring only if timeofday was set before the year 1970.
[snip patch] Do you want this patch in slink or can it wait? -- Joel Klecker (aka Espy) <URL:http://web.espy.org/> <URL:mailto:jk@espy.org> <URL:mailto:espy@debian.org> Debian GNU/Linux PowerPC -- <URL:http://www.debian.org/ports/powerpc/>