Subject: Re: NetBSD-1.3.2 Y2K problem
To: None <perry@piermont.com>
From: NG Yew Ban <ybng@cpm.com.my>
List: tech-kern
Date: 10/06/1998 14:58:29
Dear Mr. Perry,
1) There is no console warning during the booting
2) After boot into NetBSD login prompt, it show me the date is "Wed Jan 1
00:01:21 GMT 1997"
This problem happens after I purposely set the date to (a) Y1999 roll over
to Y2000 (b) during Year 2000, (a) and (b) can display in NetBSD -1.3.2
correctly before rebooting, after I issue "shutdown -r now" then
NetBSD-1.3.2 will report to me the wrong date.
3) May I know the exact URL? Can I apply clock.c (V1.5.3) in older version
of NetBSD (like NetBSD-1.1)?
Thanks in advance.
-----Original Message-----
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
To: NG Yew Ban <ybng@cpm.com.my>
Cc: perry@piermont.com <perry@piermont.com>; tech-userlevel@netbsd.org
<tech-userlevel@netbsd.org>; tech-kern@netbsd.org <tech-kern@netbsd.org>;
Y.H.LOK <yhl@cpm.com.my>; asu@cpm.com.my <asu@cpm.com.my>
Date: Tuesday, October 06, 1998 2:10 PM
Subject: Re: NetBSD-1.3.2 Y2K problem
>
>"NG Yew Ban" writes:
>> Dear Mr. Perry,
>>
>> For more info about the NSTL, you can access to
>> http://www.nstl.com/html/ymark_2000.html
>> I can reproduce the problem easily.
>
>1) Can you tell me if there are any console warnings during boot about
>the date?
>2) Can you tell me the exact date in 1997 the machine resets to?
>3) There is a new version of i386/isa/clock.c (v1.53) in tonight's SUP
>(or at least, will be in a few hours after the sup scanner runs). It
>may (or may not) fix a bug. Can you substitute this for your clock.c
>and tell me if the problem goes away when you build a kernel?
>
>Perry
>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
>> To: NG Yew Ban <ybng@cpm.com.my>
>> Cc: tech-userlevel@netbsd.org <tech-userlevel@netbsd.org>; Y.H.LOK
>> <yhl@cpm.com.my>; asu@cpm.com.my <asu@cpm.com.my>
>> Date: Saturday, October 03, 1998 1:02 AM
>> Subject: Re: NetBSD-1.3.2 Y2K problem
>>
>>
>> >
>> >"NG Yew Ban" writes:
>> >> I have a Y2K compliance clone PC and pass with NSTL YMARK2000 test
>> >> program (Version 97.08.15),
>> >
>> >I'm unfamiliar with the program.
>> >
>> >> whereas when I ran NetBSD-1.3.2, NetBSD-1.3.2 can roll over from
>> >> year 1999 to year 2000, but after I rebooted the PC, the date
>> >> reverted back to year 1997.
>> >
>> >Can you reproduce this problem at will?
>> >
>> >Perry
>> >
>>
>