> I'm used to NetBSD upon booting, when it finds a preposterous date (e.g.
> prior to say 1990), setting the clock based upon the date in the booting
> disk super block.  I've got a Mac with a dead PRAM battery that I keep
> meaning to replace.  Right now, not only do I have to reset all my OFW
> settings after a power failure, but I have to remember to boot single
> user to manually set the date - doing an "ntpdate" does not seem to produce
> a useful effect.  I notice it says the date is circa 1956 GMT and after
> the rc.d triggered ntpdate runs I'm around 1933 ...  just curious.


You might be interested in ``PR bin/13578: ntpdate stuck in the 1930's'' :-)

	Andrew