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From: zh@news.uni-konstanz.de (Z. Horvat)
Subject: Re: date
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Matthew Newhook (matthew@femto.engr.mun.ca) wrote:
: I'm running the 0.1.2.2 kernel, and when I attempt to change the date on
: my machine (with the date command) my machine works fine for about 10 seconds
: and then just dies.  Sometimes it might come back, sometimes not...  Any ideas?

: Mattew


Had experienced the same problem when my CMOS Clock was too far away from
the actual time. So my system came up with a date set to 1980 or such.
Changing the time on the running system would crash it without any
message/panic/trap etc

Can't tell you what the reason is, but a workaround would be to configure
the cmos date & time to reasonable values.

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