Re: Why? mktime() failed unexpectedly (rc -1). Aborting.

[aphro <nate@firetrail.com>]

On Wed, 9 Feb 2000, David Teague wrote:

dbt ># hwclock --show
dbt >mktime() failed unexpectedly (rc -1).  Aborting.
dbt ># hwclock --version
dbt >hwclock 2.1/util-linux 2.6
dbt >
dbt >OK? This didn't occur before the millenium, and may be similar to  
dbt >your situation. I HOPE you know a fix. If now, I will put another

there are those RTC expansion cards(typically ISA based) you may wanna try
one of those they are cheap..never tried em myself, but it may be easier
then finding a replacement MB for a machine that old! :/

nate

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