Subject: Re: our year 2000 bug
To: Ale Terlevich <A.I.Terlevich@durham.ac.uk>
From: Scott Stevens <s.k.stevens@ic.ac.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 02/17/1997 13:56:35
Ale Terlevich writes:
 > 
 >   Ok, further to my previous mails...
 > 
 > I have found that the year is reset to 2000 in my cmos clock on shutting  
 > down RiscBSD whenever I try to alter the clock. I.e. using date and rdate.
 > 
 >   The time is changed correctly, but on rebooting RiscOS, the year has 
 > been set to 2000 (time and day are correct).
 > 
 >   I have grabbed the latest version of rdate from NetBSD-current, but the 
 > problem persists.
 > 
 >   I can only assume that there is some problem with the routines that 
 > write to the CMOS clock in the kernel.

Yes I've seen this exact behaviour. I'm looking into it.

 >   Ale.

Cheers Scott

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