Public bug reported:

I have an old Mac laptop that I run PPC Edgy on. Every once and a while
my time will get out of whack and the date will be set to something like
January 1 1904. When this occurs random things start happening.

eg:

host whatever.com segfaults
Gnome Applets no longer load and randomly disappear 
Networking dies

When I set the clock back to a normal time everything starts working
100% again. Unforunately this has to be done via the command line as my
desktop does not work correctly.  Now this isn't a huge problem but I
can see how it would be extremely confusing for a computer newbie. I
would think the Linux kernel would somehow set the date to at least
something sane should something like this occur.

** Affects: Ubuntu
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: Unconfirmed

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Edgy PPC when time is grossly incorrect system does not function
https://launchpad.net/bugs/77898

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