hwclock fails on some "unstable" machines

[Bob Clark <rlclark@usa.net>]

I have three machines running hamm.  Two of them produce the
error "mktime() failed unexpectedly (rc -1).  Aborting." 
when I run hwclock.  The same version of sysvinit:

bash# dpkg -l sysvinit
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
|
Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems
(Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name            Version        Description
+++-===============-==============-============================================
ii  sysvinit        2.73-2         System-V like init.

all three kernels are different but all have the real-time
clock driver enabled.

Any ideas what could cause this situation?  BTW the two
machines have only recently started to give this error so I
guess that some package installed from "unstable" made this
happen.

--Bob


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