I looked at my OLD Power Mac MT (mobo fabbed in 1997) and it HAS a dead
battery. It resets to Jan 1, 1970 every reboot. Basic point: I do not think
it will "keep time" if the batter is dead.

Anyway, glad you have it fixed!

Au revoir,

Ben Ricker

On 2/14/06, Y-Lan Boureau <blauenote@yahoo.fr> wrote:
>
> Actually someone just told me that the clock always works even if the
> battery is dead, so it means nothing that time is passing :-(
> Hope it's not the case though.
>
> *Y-Lan Boureau <blauenote@yahoo.fr>* a écrit :
>
>
> *Ben Ricker <ben.ricker@gmail.com>* a écrit : Note that this can als
> indicate that the Mobo battery that keeps the time synced when the power is
> off may be dead.
>
> No no, today we are April 14th, 1976, and four days ago was April 10th,
> 1976, so time is actually kept  :-)
>
> Thanks everyone, I'll try tonight as soon as I have my computer in front
> of me.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Y-Lan
>
>
>
>
>
> But try the hwclock stuff first.
>
> On 2/13/06, Christophe Choumert <christophe.choumert@polytechnique.org>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Monday 13 February 2006 ! 13:36, Y-Lan Boureau wrote:
> > >   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 ?
> >
> > The relevant option is in /etc/conf.d/clock :
> > ---
> > # If you want to set the Hardware Clock to the current System Time
> > # during shutdown, then say "yes" here.
> >
> > CLOCK_SYSTOHC="yes"
> > ---
> >
> > followed by
> > % rc-update add clock boot
> > to make sure it runs at boot and halt.
> >
> > >   cheers,
> > >   Y-Lan
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Christophe
> >
> > PS: my MacOS X wo! n't boot anymore either, I wish I knew why.
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> >
> >
>
>
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