I pulled a old Pentium MB of the shelf and put my NetBSD drive in it.

Everything booted fine.

However I get a message initally that the file system time is much older 
than the system time.  I shruged this off figuring that the MB had lost 
time since it was last used (2 years ago) and that ntpdate in the rc 
startup would correct this.

Well when the boot sequence hit the ntpdate to set the date, it informed me 
that the system time had been reset by 209,569,500 sec!!!

After boot was finished I logged in and did a date and discovered that 
today is actually Thurs July 17 07:20:36 CDT 1930.

Hmmmmm....that doesnt seem quite right.

When when I rebooted I got into the (Award) BIOS and checked that date. 
 The CMOS reported that the date is actually Wed Jan 1 2060 0:0:2

Just for grins I rebooted, same things happened and when I went into the 
BIOS the date was still Wed Jan 1 2060 and the time was back to 0:0

This time I set the CMOS date and time to be correct and everything went 
okay.

Just to make sure, I tried it on another computer and it to did the same 
thing.

Now I think that the BIOS may be partially to blaim, because both machines 
have an Award BIOS and the BIOS only accepts years 1994 thru 2099.

try it and tell me what happens!

jam