Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 21:41:54 +0000 (UTC) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Invalid time in real time clock Message-ID: <lcjpn2$1a07$1@lorvorc.mips.inka.de> References: <lcj2jj$2bu$1@lorvorc.mips.inka.de>
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Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> wrote: > atrtc0: WARNING: Battery failure indication > Invalid time in real time clock. > Check and reset the date immediately! > > Incongruously, the RTC time is actually correct. Well, off by a > minute or so. Clearly the new battery is good. Turns out I misunderstood this. I thought the system time was still set from the RTC despite the warning. It isn't. Instead, it is set from the time stamp of the root file system. That's why I lose about a minute--that's the time it takes the machine to reboot. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de
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