On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 10:20:46AM +0900, Jack Morgan wrote:
> haven't been installed yet. I believe that hwclock and date commands should
> help but I haven't got them to work. and no man pages :-(
> Question: how can I set my bios clock to this century? or a workaround for
> the future time stamp
Michael Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Do you have hwclock running? I will assume you have it but no man pages
> yet.
>
> Basically, you enter a command like:
>
> hwclock --set --date="9/22/96 16:45:05"
>
> This sets the bios clock to the correct time. Just change the part in
> quotes. Then
Jack,
Shaul has replied with reference material, but I had some problems
with setting the hw clock. I got many answers =-- new bios, etc.
Then someone suggested that I reboot with a dos floppy, set the hw
clock to this century and that fixed my problem with two old
machines.
It is worth a tr
> I just did a clean install of debian potato on my Toshiba 2100cds. My bios
> clock reads Thu Jan 4 23:17:51 JST 1990. So when I use dselect to install
> numerous packages it stalls due to tar archive error that says ...future
> time stamp..etc This is very frustrating since any info, e.g. man
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