A ibook without battery loss time& date after a seconds or minute, i think that it is because thay use only a condensor instead battery for clock (old imac and pcs).
When you enter in mac os it warn you that using with bad date could cause problems. had anyone problems for use with a 1970 date?
Is possible change date& time from open firmware?
In article E40xg.3315373$kp.15549477@redacted.invalid, "peyoting" peyoting@redacted.invalid wrote:
A ibook without battery loss time& date after a seconds or minute, i think that it is because thay use only a condensor instead battery for clock (old imac and pcs).
When you enter in mac os it warn you that using with bad date could cause problems. had anyone problems for use with a 1970 date?
Is possible change date& time from open firmware?
The simplest way is to network it, and set it to make automatic time server lookups.
but if you use some days before conect to internet, you could be using 1970 date for these days.
"Hans Aberg" haberg@redacted.invalid escribiÛ en el mensaje news:haberg-2407061131120001@redacted.invalid
In article E40xg.3315373$kp.15549477@redacted.invalid, "peyoting" peyoting@redacted.invalid wrote:
A ibook without battery loss time& date after a seconds or minute, i think that it is because thay use only a condensor instead battery for clock (old imac and pcs).
When you enter in mac os it warn you that using with bad date could cause problems. had anyone problems for use with a 1970 date?
Is possible change date& time from open firmware?
The simplest way is to network it, and set it to make automatic time server lookups.
-- Hans Aberg
Right.
In article TNYxg.3390125$kp.15739255@redacted.invalid, "peyoting" peyoting@redacted.invalid wrote:
but if you use some days before conect to internet, you could be using 1970 date for these days.
A ibook without battery loss time& date after a seconds or minute, i think that it is because thay use only a condensor instead battery for clock (old imac and pcs).
When you enter in mac os it warn you that using with bad date could cause problems. had anyone problems for use with a 1970 date?
Is possible change date& time from open firmware?
The simplest way is to network it, and set it to make automatic time server lookups.
but if you use some days before conect to internet, you could be using 1970 date for these days.
On my machine, in OS9.2 with AppleScript 1.8.3, the following script runs at every start-up. I wrote it when I had problems with a failing battery. It's run perfectly, and usefully, since 2003.
You might need to adapt it to your version
-- This is a finder script property checky : 2006
tell application "Finder" activate set y to the year of the (current date)
-- New Year kick forward
if (y is equal to (checky + 1)) then set checky to (checky + 1)
– Vet for gross discrepancy, including in particular 1904 and 2040
if (y < checky) or (y > checky) then
— *** Put these two lines into a single line
display dialog "Warning: the system is set to year " & y &
return & return & "Reset the date NOW!" & return
else
display dialog "No date warning" & return giving up after 1
end if
end tell