On Sun, 13 Feb 2000, Warner Losh wrote:

> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Brian 
>Beattie writes:
> : 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.
> 
> ntpdate on boot is what we use in the village for this sort of thing.
> We run ntp at other times.
> 

I'm hopeing to run picobsd-router on this machine so adding extra
executables may not be possible.  I grabbed the y2k test/fix from the BIOS
site (Phoenix bought Award).  I includes a windoze95 fix, that seems to
adjust the clock on boot by running something from config.sys.

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