Re: system clock workaround
Sorry, already deleted the original posting:
> "Owen G. Emry" wrote:
> >
> > My firewall machine (a trusty old 486 DX4) has a bios that doesn't like the
> > year 2000. It isn't a major problem but several things (e.g. make)
> > complain, so is there an easy workaround?
> >
> > I assume I can just set the real-time clock to, say, 1990, and have the
> > internal clock set itself to the RTC + ten years on bootup. What do I have
> > to change to accomplish this, or is there a better solution altogether?
man hwclock would indicate that --epoch=10 is called for.
Hey, give yourself another twenty years with 1980!
You could put this parameter into /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh.
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