On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 04:03:13AM -0500, Mike wrote:
> Gee, no wonder my date kept coming up as 1970 everytime I rebooted.  I thought
> the RTC battery died in the TT.  Nobody's perfect eh?  I guess I didn't give
> it too much thought.  8^)

So now you know for sure I'm not in the battery selling business ;-)

> Oh well I took a look in the clock.c and I'll try recompiling the kernel
> after nuking the lines after Leo made mention of it:
> 
>      if(clkregs[MC_YEAR] > (2000 - GEMSTARTOFTIME))
>           return(0);

The 'official' change is:
	if(clkregs[MC_YEAR] > 99)
		return(0);

But I must admit that I don't have a datasheet handy, so I really don't
know if failing this check is possible ;-)

Welcome back to 2001,

Leo.