Re: [gentoo-ppc-user] date and time set to April 1976

[Y-Lan Boureau]

No, the battery is not dead - I've keeped the computer unplugged for hours a number of times, and time was still passing, moving from April 10th to April 11th and so on. What happened was I never gave a chance to the hardware clock to get back to 2006, after I resetted it to 1976 by zapping the PRAM and NVRAM. But then after people from this mailing list kindly told me how to set hardware clock to system time, the clock was back to 2006 at last.  So this problem is solved for good :-)  Cheers,  Y-Lan  Bartosz Zaród [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit: On 2006-02-14, at 20:19, Y-Lan Boureau wrote: Thanks everyone :-)) My system date is back to 2006 ! Cheers, Y-LanHaving a dead battery, system clock resets to it's initial value onl!
 y 
 when I:1. Turn off the power2. Plug off power cord for a while, i.e. when I take the computer to  a different location. 5 minutes is enough.Simple restart is not enough. System clock is running like the  circuit that lets to turn on machine "softly" - with power button on  the keyboard.If you use oldworld machine and need to boot the old Mac OS system  before running BootX, you can expect the machine to "forget" where is  the startup volume too.With these information you should quickly find if battery needs to be  replaced.RegardsBartek-- gentoo-ppc-user@gentoo.org mailing list
		 Nouveau : téléphonez moins cher avec Yahoo! Messenger ! Découvez les tarifs exceptionnels pour appeler la France et l'international.
Téléchargez la version beta.

[gentoo-ppc-user] date and time set to April 1976

[Y-Lan Boureau]

Hi,I've recently installed gentoo on a G4 TiBook and it's working fine.However, I have a couple of unresolved problems, one of which being,  the system doesn't remember the date. I had entered the correct date  when installing, but it always follow the system date instead (the date  that appears in Open Firmware when I boot it) and I have to reset the  correct date every time I boot (otherwise I get compilation errors  warning that I'm installing files that got modified in the future).The system date turned back to April 1976 when I zapped the PRAM and  NVRAM because it was impossible to boot Mac OS ; then I installed  Gentoo and ever since it goes back again and again to 1976 (time is not  stuck though ; time passing seems to be accurate, only, it is  translated back to April 1976).I tried to guess how to reset time and date in Open Firmware by typing  commands that seemed appropriate (I tried "date" "set-date",  "setdate"), b!
 ut
 nothing worked :-(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 ?cheers,Y-Lan
		 Nouveau : téléphonez moins cher avec Yahoo! Messenger ! Découvez les tarifs exceptionnels pour appeler la France et l'international.
Téléchargez la version beta.