On Fri, Apr 18, 2003 at 03:46:45AM +0000, Lance Tagliapietra wrote: > This has been discussed here before. The consensus seems to be (and > I have observed the same result) is to set your clock under Linux > using the "date" command (see man date) (* ouch! *).
The manual page for date is not that long. Unless you are looking at the manual pages for female dates ;) > I have noticed > that when I change the clock setting using the AmigaDos Preferences > tool, the system date year will be 1903 in Linux as you described. > > When I set the date under Linux, AmigaDos keeps the date year correct, > and it stays correct when I reboot back into Linux. a2000:~> uname -a Linux a2000 2.2.25 #1 Sat Mar 29 08:27:25 EST 2003 m68k unknown unknown GNU/Linux a2000:~> uptime 22:01:58 up 11:51, 8 users, load average: 2.30, 0.96, 0.36 a2000:~> date Tue Apr 22 22:02:12 PDT 2003 And all is well. Just have to remember to set the clock properly during install, but I can live with that quite happily. Erik
