On 21 Oct, this message from Chris Tillman echoed through cyberspace: > On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 02:09:52PM -0600, Jason E. Stewart wrote: >> "Rog?rio Brito" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > On Oct 21 2002, John Goerzen wrote: >> > > I believe there are firmware and/or OS bugs that cause the date to >> > > show up incorrectly. I have seen this numerous times on my >> > > Powerbook, even when brand new, especially when booting one OS and >> > > then another.
My TiBook relativeléy often resets the time to 1904, which is also too far off for ntp to correct it. I then need to manually adjust it, before I can sync it with ntp. It seems this happens every time the PMU gets reset, regardless of battery availability. At least this TiBook _does_ have an internal bakup battery (glued to the top cover together with the PMU, above the DVD drive). >> > The only time I saw something like that was when I left the >> > battery of my iBook drain completely. I suppose that the iBook >> > I have doesn't have an internal battery for the computer's >> > clock. >> >> OS9 resets my clock everytime I boot into it. >> > > If it's off by the same number of hours as the difference from you to > Greenwich Mean Time, then the fix is simple. It took me awhile to > figure out, you have to tell Linux you want to use local time, since > that's what MacOS uses, not GMT as the install prompt seems to > recommend. You can use date and hwclock, or /usr/sbin/base-config, to > accomplish this. Yeah, this is a pain. It's even worse since upon booting, the kernel reads the UTC offset and a DST flag from NVRAM. This DST flag will be wrong, unless you boot MacOS to bring the clock over a DST/non-DST switch. Anybody up for patching MacOS to work with UTC time? :-) Cheers Michel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michel Lanners | " Read Philosophy. Study Art. 23, Rue Paul Henkes | Ask Questions. Make Mistakes. L-1710 Luxembourg | email [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan | Learn Always. "