Re: system clock workaround
"Owen G. Emry" <oemry@patriot.net> writes:
> 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?
Have you actually tried rebooting and manually setting the year from
the bios? I had a 486 with similar problems that hwclock couldn't
handle, but it has had no problems since I manually set it to 2000.
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Carl Johnson carlj@peak.org
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