Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 07:03:54 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: System time suddenly changed after reboot. Message-ID: <FB424B10-7969-4496-BBF1-0A07F6F64B14@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <1136881768.591.1.camel@p4-3200.local> References: <20060110090130.67517.qmail@ssr.com> <1136881768.591.1.camel@p4-3200.local>
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On Jan 10, 2006, at 12:29 AM, Andreas Rudisch wrote: > On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 09:01 +0000, Scott Ballantyne wrote: >> Running 5.3-RELEASE. >> >> After many years of using FreeBSD, and as many reboots or more, I had >> occasion to reboot today, and a few hours later discovered to my >> horror that the system time had suddenly been moved ahead to the year >> 2020! >> >> I did the best I could with the resulting mess, but I am curious if >> anyone else has seen this, or what would cause it. This is the same >> hardware I have been running for a couple of years now, and I haven't >> changed anything in the bios or system. >> >> Thanks, >> Scott > > Just an idea, but maybe the BIOS battery ran out of power and needs to > be replaced. > > Andreas > > -- > GnuPG key : 0x2A573565 | http://cyb.websimplex.de/pubkey.asc > Fingerprint: 925D 2089 0BF9 8DE5 9166 33BB F0FD CD37 2A57 3565 Interesting though. Usually clocks get set back to 1972, or somewhere around that era. -Garrett
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