[Info-vax] boottime in the future

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2011-12-21 07:22, Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote:
> In article<jcqst4$uog$1 at Iltempo.Update.UU.SE>, Johnny Billquist
> <bqt at softjar.se>  writes:
>
>>> I don't understand this. I always understood that VMS took the year from
>>> the SYS.EXE image file. The TOY (Time of Year) clock only supplied the
>>> time within the year. The SYS.EXE file is updated at shutdown with a SET
>>> TIME. At least, this was the case on VAX hardware.
>>> A problem with the TOY clock would result in being at most about one
>>> year wrong.
>>> This is more than one year, so it indicates a problem with the SYS.EXE
>>> time. Maybe, this has been corrected later with a SET TIME, so that on
>>> subsequent boots the time was correct again.
>>
>> So, the obvious first question: Is/was this on a VAX?
>
> No, ALPHA (PWS).

So, the behaviour of the TOY clock of old VAXen is rather irrelevant. :-)

So it's possible that you had a TOY clock with a hiccup that caused it 
to think we were in the future, and you got a log entry to match before 
the time was corrected. Not saying that this happened, but it is possible.

	Johnny

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