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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
>
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Interesting though. Usually clocks get set back to 1972, or somewhere  
around that era.
-Garrett



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