Re: autosetting time
I have a similar situaltion with my p75. It sets date to somethere in
2094... cool ah? what I do is boot to DOS, set correct date and use
loadlin to load linux. If I boot directly to linux and correct the date,
time will decrease and as I found out not all programs like that. (you
mount a partition in 2094 and write to it in 2000.)
Anyway, I can probably understand why 1999 is followed by 1980 (or 1984)
but how it happened that after 1999 there is 2094? They tryed to make a
Y2K compiant bios and could not? beats me...
Just a thought,
Lazar
On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Robert Guthrie wrote:
> I actually use chrony, which is a good-enough solution for my wierd setup:
>
> One machine (a tyan motherboard with a cyrix p150+) has a non-y2k compliant
> bios, which sets the date to 198x every time it's rebooted. I'm not
> connected to the internet fulltime, so I have cronyd running on a 486 (which
> IS y2k compliant... go figure), and when my cyrix machine reboots, it queries
> the 486 in the boot sequence and resets the date to a fairly good date. It's
> not the most accurate, nor is it probably the best package under most
> circumstances, but it has it's place. Mostly, it was easy to set up my own
> time server.
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