Hello,
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, I wrote:
> today I installed linux (RH 6.1) on an alcor system (AlphaStation 600
> 5/333). Mostly it works right except for system date. It seems that linux
> takes wrong UNIX epoch from SRM. date shows some date in 2068, which is
> exactly one epoch (2**31 secs) too late.
The information above is note entirely correct. The behaviour is a bit
different: it gets the seconds, minuted, hours, day and month correct,
only the year is incorrect. It thinks we are in 2047.
It seems to calculate the epoch later and since the year is wrong (and in
next UNIX epoch, which starts sometime in 2038), the epoch is also wrong.
It still holds what I wrote about ntp:
> BTW, if I run ntpdate, it corrects clock by some seconds, so it seems that
> it doesn't know about epoch.
Does anybody else have similar problems. Any solution other than seting
the correct date/time in linux and then writing it back to SRM?
Peace!
Mkx
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