Re: hwclock: NVRAM flat battery sets date to 1904

[Børge Holen <holen.borge@gmail.com>]

Same thing that happens when one forget to compile in rtc?
Done that a few times.

On 16. mai. 2009, at 09.47, Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br> wrote:

> Hi, Mark.
>
> On May 16 2009, Mark Purcell wrote:
> > +       hwclock --set --date 2009-5-16
>
> I have always done something like that with my system, since openbsd's
> nntpd doesn't seem to be able to update the time initially when it is
> too far from the current date.
>
> A more flexible solution (while still quick'n'dirty) would be to put  
> the
> date of the last shutdown in a given file and, in the hwclock script,
> see if it such a file (like, say, the files in /etc/default/) is
> readable and update the clock from that, while, otherwise, falling  
> back
> to a date like yours.
>
>
> Regards, Rogério Brito.
>
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