Unix Pc Date/time
was-John McMillan
jcm at mtunb.ATT.COM
Tue Oct 31 01:29:27 AEST 1989
In article <912 at kcdev.UUCP> obrien at kcdev.UUCP (John Obrien x4089) writes:
>
>I need some help. My 7300 recently quit keeping date and time.
>That is, when I do a shutdown and bring it back up again it's
>Jan 1, 12:01 all over again. Is this related to any program
>malfunction or just a dead battery? If it's the battery, how do
> I change it? I'm using 3.51.
It's the battery. (I'm sure Lenny, Gil, Thad or someone else who's
archived the instructions can E-mail them to you.)
Note that the KERNEL would be happy to resume time from the
date of the last ROOTDEV update -- i.e., the time the machine was
last taken down. The line 'date -' in /etc/rc overrides this.
_I_ view this as a design defect in date(1): 'date' can easily
identify the clock battery's dead and that clock shouldn't be
used for updating the time.
If you know your battery's dead, I'd recommend commenting out that
'date -' line until you've replaced the battery. When you forget
to set the date on boot, it is better to have your files sequentially
dated -- but a day or two off -- than to have them ridiculously
dated in mixed order.
john mcmillan -- att!mtunb!jcm
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