I looked at my OLD Power Mac MT (mobo fabbed in 1997) and it HAS a dead battery. It resets to Jan 1, 1970 every reboot. Basic point: I do not think it will "keep time" if the batter is dead.

Anyway, glad you have it fixed!

Au revoir,

Ben Ricker

On 2/14/06, Y-Lan Boureau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Actually someone just told me that the clock always works even if the battery is dead, so it means nothing that time is passing :-(
Hope it's not the case though.

Y-Lan Boureau < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit :

Ben Ricker < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : Note that this can als indicate that the Mobo battery that keeps the time synced when the power is off may be dead.

No no, today we are April 14th, 1976, and four days ago was April 10th, 1976, so time is actually kept  :-)

Thanks everyone, I'll try tonight as soon as I have my computer in front of me.

Cheers,

Y-Lan





But try the hwclock stuff first.

On 2/13/06, Christophe Choumert < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Monday 13 February 2006 ! 13:36, Y-Lan Boureau wrote:
>   Does anyone know a fix to this -- either, how I could set correct time
> and date in Open Firmware, or allow Linux to remember its own time and
> date ?

The relevant option is in /etc/conf.d/clock :
---
# If you want to set the Hardware Clock to the current System Time
# during shutdown, then say "yes" here.

CLOCK_SYSTOHC="yes"
---

followed by
% rc-update add clock boot
to make sure it runs at boot and halt.

>   cheers,
>   Y-Lan

Cheers,
Christophe

PS: my MacOS X wo! n't boot anymore either, I wish I knew why.
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