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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