you don't specify what version of NetBSD you are using. Before fairly
recent versions, there were Y2K bugs.

Perry


"John A. Maier - MIS dept." writes:
> I pulled a old Pentium MB of the shelf and put my NetBSD drive in it.
> 
> Everything booted fine.
> 
> However I get a message initally that the file system time is much older 
> than the system time.  I shruged this off figuring that the MB had lost 
> time since it was last used (2 years ago) and that ntpdate in the rc 
> startup would correct this.
> 
> Well when the boot sequence hit the ntpdate to set the date, it informed me 
> that the system time had been reset by 209,569,500 sec!!!
> 
> After boot was finished I logged in and did a date and discovered that 
> today is actually Thurs July 17 07:20:36 CDT 1930.
> 
> Hmmmmm....that doesnt seem quite right.
> 
> When when I rebooted I got into the (Award) BIOS and checked that date. 
>  The CMOS reported that the date is actually Wed Jan 1 2060 0:0:2
> 
> Just for grins I rebooted, same things happened and when I went into the 
> BIOS the date was still Wed Jan 1 2060 and the time was back to 0:0
> 
> This time I set the CMOS date and time to be correct and everything went 
> okay.
> 
> Just to make sure, I tried it on another computer and it to did the same 
> thing.
> 
> Now I think that the BIOS may be partially to blaim, because both machines 
> have an Award BIOS and the BIOS only accepts years 1994 thru 2099.
> 
> try it and tell me what happens!
> 
> jam
>