It depends on _how_ your BIOS is not Y2K compatible. Usually the only
problem is that the BIOS clock is unable to wrap the clock century from
19 to 20. (Sometimes the year does not wrap from 99 back to 00 and instead
shows as 100.)
In most CMOS chips you only need to fix the century and year once (for the
next 100 years any way). To solve this problem I offer a program at
the special low price of FREE!
For some (typically rather old) CMOS they are unable to work even after
a manual correction of the century and/or year and you need a fixed version
of hwclock.c to correct them if you don't want to manually set your clock
every time you boot up. I also offer a fixed hwclock.c for Red Hat 5.x
for the special low price of FREE!
An alternative to all of this is to add the following line to your
/etc/ppp/ip-up script and just start your connection shortly after you
boot up:
/usr/sbin/netdate -v bitsy.mit.edu ; /sbin/clock -u -w
Let me know if any of this helps.
ftp://ftp.mindspring.com/users/cavu/century.c [Y2K CMOS clock fix for Linux]
ftp://ftp.mindspring.com/users/cavu/hwclock.c [Y2K hwclock for broken CMOS]
Bob Toxen
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http://www.cavu.com
http://www.cavu.com/sunset.html [Sunset Computer]
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