System time suddenly changed after reboot.

[Andreas Rudisch]

On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 09:01 +0000, Scott Ballantyne wrote:
> Running 5.3-RELEASE.
> 
> After many years of using FreeBSD, and as many reboots or more, I had
> occasion to reboot today, and a few hours later discovered to my
> horror that the system time had suddenly been moved ahead to the year
> 2020!
> 
> I did the best I could with the resulting mess, but I am curious if
> anyone else has seen this, or what would cause it.  This is the same
> hardware I have been running for a couple of years now, and I haven't
> changed anything in the bios or system.
> 
> Thanks,
> Scott

Just an idea, but maybe the BIOS battery ran out of power and needs to
be replaced.

Andreas

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