Thank you. I'll check into the century.c program. I have tho, already
checked the hardware,battery, etc. It all seems to handle y2k correctly
unless I missed something.
- Gary
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If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed...
..oh wait, he does.
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Shahbaz Javeed wrote:
> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2000 11:10:35 -0500 (EST)
> From: Shahbaz Javeed ">sjaveed@bigfoot.com>
> To: ">ale@ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] Slack 7 and date/time
>
> Chances are, your bios could be at fault here. Perhaps you should try the
> century.c program someone posted on the list earlier (sorry, I forget your
> name). Also, have you checked the CMOS battery? 1994 might be the
> smallest value of the date your CMOS can hold and if your battery is dead,
> the CMOS clock usually reverts to the smallest (earliest) date possible on
> every reboot.
>
> -Shahbaz
>
> >
> > I have an old 486 server running Slack 7. It runs just fine, except that it
> > doesn't seem to handle the date/time properly when it boots. I checked the
> > bios, no problem, it rolled over just fine to 01/01/2000. When I booted up
> > tho, it showed the correct time, but the wrong date. (1994). I can issue a
> > date command and set the proper date/time and it holds it fine until the next
> > reboot. I played around with hwclock, but no luck. What have I missed?
> >
> > - Gary
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