FreeBSD uses the year 1936 in qemu

[Thomas Backman]

On Jul 13, 2007, at 10:33 PM, Dominique Goncalves wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to run FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT as a guest in qemu-0.9.0 (using
> freesbie), but FreeBSD thinks the current date is Sat 31 oct 1936.
> newsyslog and syslogd do not start correctly.
>
> Creating and/or trimming log files:
> newsyslog:
> malformed 'at' value:
> /var/log/all.log                        600  7     *    @T00  J
>
> .
> <snip>
> Of course I can use ntpd or ntpdate but it's too late in the  
> startup order.
> I found a similar problem [1] reported which proposes a fix [2].
> I applied the patch in PR i386/111117 and the date is now set
> correclty inside qemu.
>
> Is this a bug in FreeBSD or qemu ?
This happens in VMWare (VMWare Fusion, to be exact) as well. The same
topic was up recently (last post today), "Debugging time". According  
to the
last post, the issue seems to be resolved (but with no patch commited).

/Thomas