Hi, On 1/29/12, Andreas Schwab <sch...@linux-m68k.org> wrote: > kevin diggs <diggskevi...@gmail.com> writes: > > > Perhaps the RTC was reset due to battery running out? That would set > the year to 1900, but the kernel RTC interface cannot represent dates > before 1970. Unfortunately hwclock insists on reading the RTC even when > you just want to write to it, so you cannot fix that with hwclock -w. > When the battery of my iBook has run out I'm using the following to > reset RTC to current time so that it is usable again. > > Andreas. > > Thanks! I did not know about this problem with the year. This vintage of mac sets the year to 1956.
Yes, the battery is dead. It is one of those $20 1/3 AA lithium cells. I can't afford to replace it. I went into the MacOS Classic date control panel and set the year to 1971 and it worked! Thanks for the tip. I would have never figured this one out! kevin > -- > Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org > GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 > "And now for something completely different." > _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev