[parisc-linux] Problems with hardware clock

[kenneth westelinck]

Cool, will I be able to replace it?

----- Original Message -----
From: "James P. Kinney III" <jkinney@localnetsolutions.com>
To: "kenneth westelinck" <kennywest1@hotmail.com>
Cc: "palinux" <parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org>
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 3:49 PM
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Problems with hardware clock


> That really sounds like a dead battery problem to me. I don't ave near
> the PaRISK experience that I do on intel and sgi. But the symptoms are
> identical to to dead battery symptoms on both other platforms.
>
> On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 09:38, kenneth westelinck wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > When I first booted my 712/60, that was a few months ago, it was running
> > some old HP-UX version. Also, the clock was running 7 years behind.
After
> > upgrading my box to Linux I tried to set this clock to a more recent
point
> > in time. No luck however, the date command is -for some reason- not
working
> > for me. So I'm using this workaround to set my clock:
> > hwclock --set --date="04/29/2002 15:22:00", then hwclock --hctosys.
> > The problem is that the system does not appear to keep track of time
when
> > it's powered off.
> > So if I shutdown the system, today at 18h00, the date will still be
> > 04/29/2002 - 18h00 if I boot the system tomorrow. Sometimes the date is
> > reset to 1970. Currently I'm using NTP to bypass this issue.
> >
> > Any ideas why this is happening? Could it be that some battery is dead?
> > (According to this site my box should be Y2K compliant:
> > http://www.wagoneers.com/UNIX/HP-UX/Y2k.html)
> >
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Kenneth
> >
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