On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 09:22:08AM -0700, cagney@mac.com wrote:
> After a hard reset of a G4 Ti, the system clock is set back to 1901.
> 
> Running ntpdate gets the machine to advance its clock to ~1930.  Running ntpdate again advances the clock no further - it is stuck in the mid 20th century.
> 
> To get the machine into the 21st century, the clock needs to be set by hand.

This isn't a problem we can fix, as I understand it. OpenFirmware is
just painfully broken.

Resetting the clock by hand is the only solution (and that won't
even stick past a reboot unless you do it in MacOS, incidentally
overwriting your nvramrc and OF vars in the process).

If you'd like to figure out how MacOS X (well, hopefully, Darwin)
handles this situation, it'd be great to know.

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