Actually, I thought it was because NetBSD/mac68k tends to have a lot of
clock-lossage due to the brain-dead interrupt arrangement.  We didn't
want to have NetBSD save the current time value back to PRAM when it was
quite likely several minutes or even hours behind real-time.

On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Allen Briggs wrote:

> > I'm having a slight problem with my Quadra 650/NetBSD 1.4.1 system when
> > I want to shut down...  I keep getting an error that says that NetBSD
> > "does not trust itself to update the RTC".  Can anyone tell me what this
> > means ?  Or how to fix it ?
> 
> It means that we aren't sure that the code to write to the PRAM will
> work (or we're sure that it won't), so it's skipping that.
> 
> > When I try to reboot, the error recurrs about 10 times over a span of
> > about 15 minutes... and then it finally reboots.
> 
> I don't know why this would be happening.
> 
> -allen
> 
> 

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