I had some clock troubles a few weeks ago when I passed from local to UTC time (somehow my /etc/adjtime was corrupted). I thought I fixed it and used my box happily for a few weeks before realizing that I mixed things up somewhere along the path: date and time are OK, but my box thinks it is running in year... 2017!!! So I have two questions:
1) How do I set the date/time in gentoo? do I have to set the system clock only, and let gentoo sync the hwclock at poweroff, or do I have to run the classical "date xxxxxx;hwclock --systohc" sequence? 2) How do I safely put my date 14 years back??? can I just set the date, or will it cause problems? should I try some magic "find" invocation to set every file dated 2017 back to 2003? Do I have to delete/modify certain settings/log files? Thank you for any help. I'm very happy with my gentoo installation now and it would really bother me to mess things up for such a silly mistake... Matthieu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
