RTC on 2.6.36 for PowerMac 8600

[kevin diggs]

Hi,

On 1/29/12, Andreas Schwab <schwab at linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> kevin diggs <diggskevin38 at gmail.com> writes:
>
>
> Perhaps the RTC was reset due to battery running out?  That would set
> the year to 1900, but the kernel RTC interface cannot represent dates
> before 1970.  Unfortunately hwclock insists on reading the RTC even when
> you just want to write to it, so you cannot fix that with hwclock -w.
> When the battery of my iBook has run out I'm using the following to
> reset RTC to current time so that it is usable again.
>
> Andreas.
>
>
Thanks! I did not know about this problem with the year. This vintage
of mac sets the year to 1956.

Yes, the battery is dead. It is one of those $20 1/3 AA lithium cells.
I can't afford to replace it. I went into the MacOS Classic date
control panel and set the year to 1971 and it worked!

Thanks for the tip. I would have never figured this one out!

kevin
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