[SPARCbook] WARNING: TOD clock not initialized -- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!

Arno Uhlmelmahei arno at panix.com
Thu Aug 31 09:49:42 CDT 2000


> Doug Moore wrote:
> 
> After attempting to set the correct time on my SparcBook 3 the system
> locked up hard, I pulled power, and I haven't been able to reboot
> since.
> FYI, I had been using Pause-O to suspend the system.
> I was in "su" mode at the time I used the date command.
> The command I used was "date 08301415" because "date 0008301415" would
> not take eventhough that is the correct usage (i.e. yymmddhhmm)
    
    For what it's worth,  mmddHHMMyy is the correct sequence, so 
    date 0830141500 is what you should have entered.

    Regards,
    Arno





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