Re: Setting hwclock time
> I just did a clean install of debian potato on my Toshiba 2100cds. My bios
> clock reads Thu Jan 4 23:17:51 JST 1990. So when I use dselect to install
> numerous packages it stalls due to tar archive error that says ...future
> time stamp..etc.... This is very frustrating since any info, e.g. man pages,
> haven't been installed yet. I believe that hwclock and date commands should
> help but I haven't got them to work. and no man pages :-(
> Question: how can I set my bios clock to this century? or a workaround for
> the future time stamp error from tar?
> Thanks for any help
> Jack Morgan
>
Useful search interfaces to the man pages can be found at:
http://linux.wiw.org/doc/man/ and http://linux.com.hk/man/.
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-- Shaul Karl <shaulk@israsrv.net.il>
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