On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Marcel de Reuver wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Since 1 Jan 2000 on a RedHat 5.1 system hwclock aborts with the
> following error:
>
> mktime() failed unexpectedly (rc -1). Aborting.
>
I have seen this on all my 5.x boxes. I would guess it is a problem in
hwclock, most likely it is not passing 100 to the mktime for year 2000 (
the year is supposed to be number of years since 1900). It could be
problem in glibc, which provides mktime().
Redhat 6.x seems fine.
Bill Carlson
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