Carl: I set the date in the BIOS directly, now all that stuff, appartenly icluding mktime, all seem to WORK! Many thanks!
David On 10 Feb 2000, Carl Johnson wrote: > David Teague <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Kevin and Nate: > > > > Thanks for the suggestions. I'll live with the problem > > until I can find time to upgrade to Potato, rather than > > mess with fixing dependencies or looking for a board. > > > > Upgrading is easy enough, I just did it 2 weeks ago on > > my main machines. Besides, I have all my data backed up on > > tape, so even if I wind up needing to wipeand reistall, > > I'll be OK. > > > > Meanwhile, I'll look for the RTC board that Nate mentioned > > in his message. I need a couple of them at least, as I have > > 4 machines that have this problem. > > > > Again thanks, this is why I choose Debian- the help is > > quick, freely given and almost _always_ works. > > Just in case... Have you tried re-booting and manually setting the > year from the BIOS menu? I had the same problem on an old portable > computer and it worked for me. > > -- > Carl Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --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!)