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Date:      Sun, 30 Jan 2000 17:10:26 -0800 (PST)
From:      GReg meno <kbagel@yahoo.com>
To:        freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: WARNING: preposterous clock chip time.
Message-ID:  <20000131011026.12949.qmail@web2006.mail.yahoo.com>

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i'm running FreeBSD 4.0-19991225-CURRENT
on an LX164

greg
--- Matthew Jacob <mjacob@veritas.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, 30 Jan 2000, GReg meno wrote:
> 
> > my systems time is messed up
> > date returns a random time which is sometimes off
> a
> > day and a few hours or a year
> > on bootup i get
> > 
> > 	WARNING: preposterous clock chip time
> >          --- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!
> > 
> > what is going on here?
> 
> Need some more details. There was, hee hee, a y2k
> bug when it didn't
> believe that year < 70 was a valid year. This was
> fixed around the 2nd of
> January for -current. So -what kernel are you
> running. What machine,
> etc...
> 
> If you are running this particular machine with
> OSF/1, there's a different
> interpretation on the NVRAM in the toy (chip), or if
> you switch with ARC
> and run NT, there's yet *another* intepretation of
> NVRAM, so they all step
> on each other. This is a known problem, but hasn't
> been a high priority
> issue to fix.
> 
> 
> > 
> > PS is there some website for freebsd alpha
> simmilar to
> > www.alphalinux.org that has answers to all these
> kind
> > of questions ?
> 
> Wish there was- I don't know if there really is one
> set up yet. We sure
> need one.
> 
> -matt
> 
> 
> 
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