Hi
My system is an OLD (circa 1990) 486/66 with ISA motherboard and 64K Cache, 32 MB RAM, and 4 Gig IDE disk. When I try to set the hardware clock, I get the error message indicated in the subject line. The entire exchange that brought this to mind is: gandalf# /usr/sbin/netdate time_a.timefreq.bldrdoc.gov time_a.timefreq.bldrdoc.gov -0.801 Fri Feb 4 14:01:28.000 gandalf# /sbin/hwclock -w mktime() failed unexpectedly (rc -1). Aborting. Can someone advise what is causing mktime() to fail? What I can do to fix this? I hate not being able to automate the setting of the hardware clock. CMOS seems to remember the setting and so doesn't give me grief aobut rebooting. --David David Teague, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software support is free, timely, useful, technically accurate, and friendly. (I'm hoping this is all of the above!)