Bug#45693: Bizarre Multia clock behavior

[Zygo Blaxell <zblaxell@japoro.furryterror.org>]

Package: libc6.1
Version: 2.1.2-2
Severity: critical

This is on my freshly-installed Multia booted with slink floppies and
installed with potato via apt.

$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.0.36 (root@axp0) (gcc version egcs-2.91.60 Debian 2.1 (egcs-1.1.
1 release)) #1 Fri Mar 5 04:24:00 CET 1999
$ ldd `which date`
        libc.so.6.1 => /lib/libc.so.6.1 (0x000001555555c000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x0000000000000000)
$ ldd `which hwclock`
        libc.so.6.1 => /lib/libc.so.6.1 (0x000001555555c000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x0000000000000000)
$ cat /proc/rtc
rtc_time        : 17:47:45
rtc_date        : 1999-09-21
alarm           : **:04:**
DST_enable      : no
BCD             : no
24hr            : yes
square_wave     : no
alarm_IRQ       : no
update_IRQ      : no
periodic_IRQ    : yes
periodic_freq   : 1024
batt_status     : okay
$ su -
Password:
# while sleep 1; do hwclock; date; done
Tue Sep 21 17:51:20 1999  1441602.625000 seconds
Wed Jan  7 22:42:44 EST 1970
Tue Sep 21 17:51:22 1999  1715040.625000 seconds
Wed Jan  7 05:04:47 EST 1970
Tue Sep 21 17:51:24 1999  1640820.625000 seconds
Wed Jan  7 09:08:56 EST 1970
Tue Sep 21 17:51:26 1999  1668165.625000 seconds
Wed Jan  7 04:15:57 EST 1970
Tue Sep 21 17:51:28 1999  1651563.625000 seconds
Wed Jan  7 05:21:04 EST 1970
Tue Sep 21 17:51:30 1999  1655469.625000 seconds
Wed Jan  7 03:59:41 EST 1970
Tue Sep 21 17:51:32 1999  1649610.625000 seconds
Wed Jan  7 12:07:58 EST 1970
Tue Sep 21 17:51:34 1999  1677930.625000 seconds
Wed Jan  7 07:47:33 EST 1970
Tue Sep 21 17:51:36 1999  1661329.625000 seconds
Wed Jan  7 05:21:04 EST 1970
Tue Sep 21 17:51:38 1999  1653516.625000 seconds
Wed Jan  7 04:32:14 EST 1970
Tue Sep 21 17:51:40 1999  1650587.625000 seconds
Wed Jan  7 05:21:04 EST 1970

Slink looks like this:

(same machine, same kernel)
japoro:/# ldd `which date`
        libc.so.6.1 => /lib/libc.so.6.1 (0x0000015555558000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x0000000000000000)
japoro:/# ldd `which hwclock`
        libc.so.6.1 => /lib/libc.so.6.1 (0x0000015555558000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x0000000000000000)
japoro:/# while sleep 1; do hwclock; date; done
Tue Sep 21 17:55:09 1999  -0.244140 seconds
Tue Sep 21 14:54:55 PDT 1999
Tue Sep 21 17:55:11 1999  -0.343750 seconds
Tue Sep 21 14:54:57 PDT 1999
Tue Sep 21 17:55:13 1999  -0.603516 seconds
Tue Sep 21 14:54:59 PDT 1999
Tue Sep 21 17:55:15 1999  -0.301758 seconds
Tue Sep 21 14:55:01 PDT 1999

Needless to say, this has syslogd, ntpdate, ntpd, anacron and make
severely confused, as well as probably anything else that looks at
the time.

-- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Architecture: alpha
Kernel: Linux japoro 2.0.36 #1 Fri Mar 5 04:24:00 CET 1999 alpha

Versions of packages libc6.1 depends on:
ii  ldso                          1.9.11-3   The Linux dynamic linker, library