Re: Interesting "Problem"

[David Schleef <ds@schleef.org>]

On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 03:44:37PM +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote:
> Russell Hires wrote:
> 
> > I'm playing with the date command, trying to understand why it doesn't
> > pick up the current time/date from ntpdate/ntpd...
> 
> ntpdate sometimes fails when the date is too far off. Setting the date
> manually and then running ntpdate usually works for me.

I've noticed this as well, after I crash the machine really
hard.  The RTC gets set to 1904, and ntpdate doesn't seem to handle
times that are outside the current epoch.  Does anyone know if this
is this a limitation or bug with ntpdate or the kernel interface for the
real-time clock?





dave...