Brian Beattie wrote:
> I have an older 486 system, running 3.4R that has a cmos clock that seems
> to be unwilling to accept years out side the range 94-99. The bios seems
> willing to set dates between 1994-2099, but after reboot any year not
> between 94-99 is converted to {20,19}94.
>
> What I have done is to go into i386/isa/clock.c and in the routines
> inittodr, resettodr, is to add 6 to and subtract 6 from the years
> respectively. I was wondering if anybody had any better ideas.
Also watch out for day-of-month and day-of-week calulations done in the
cmos chip. It's a shame you couldn't set it for 1972 which matches the
year 2000 date, day, and leap year sequences exactly.
Cheers,
-Peter
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