Re: Loss of Date and Time?

Subject: Re: Loss of Date and Time?
From: Christopher Murtagh (christopher.murtagh@mcgill.ca)
Date: Tue Jan 29 2002 - 15:35:21 MST

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On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Irena and Richard Jenkins wrote:
>One little wrinkle still manages to annoy ... the machine loses time and
>date sometimes on startup. Last night I was told that my date was 1904
>... but the time seemed correct. I can reset the system as 'root' by
>using the date command ... but it is annoying...

 Sounds like the battery on your motherboard is dead. It's about $19 CND
($2 US?) :-) at Radio Shack.

Cheers,

Chris

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