Subject: Re: File system date wrong after install
To: Nico van Eikema Hommes <hommes@derioc1.organik.uni-erlangen.de>
From: Colin Wood <ender@is.rice.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 04/11/1997 04:02:02
> >> After doing an install or cpin (using Installer 1.1c), I almost always get
> >> a message "Warning: Battery clock earlier than filesystem date" and the
> >> system decides to use the latter, which is bogus. Anyone else seen this?
> >Do you have your GMT bias set correctly in the Booter?  Or else are you
> >using a kernel with an RTC_OFFSET compiled in?
> 
> I have the GMT bias set to 120 minutes (MET-DST), the "Map" control panel
> is set to Berlin, I'm using the GENERIC#29 kernel from the latest snapshot
> (the one with the ADB routines), so I don't expect it to have RTC_OFFSET.
> When I just reboot the system, everything is fine. Only after installing,
> the time gets wrong, by some random amount. I've seen differences between
> half an hour and several hours.

How weird...unless you have the time zone incorrectly set somewhere
(either in the Date & Time control panel or in NetBSD), I really can't
imagine why you're getting this error.  Maybe the time in the MacOS is a
bit off???

Later.

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Colin Wood                                      ender@is.rice.edu
Consultant                                        Rice University
Information Technology Services                       Houston, TX