Amiga UNIX Y2K problem...no problem?

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I dunno.  For kicks I tried changing the value to 80, but it's still broken in the same way.  I'm curious about it but I'm not sure what I can do to fix it.

Not calling it at all seems to work well.  I had the machine off for a couple weeks recently, and when I booted it, it just used the date from the last time it was up.  Much better than 1978!  :-)

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@Piru:

Thanks a lot for taking a look at it! Looks like date can't handle it.  I enabled the DEBUG define in the code for extra output:
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root@motoko:~# date
Sun Feb 12 14:23:23 EST 2006
root@motoko:~# setclk
localtime (from system): 0215060979
time (to hardware): buffer=`0215060979', thetime=`0215060979'
Thu Feb 15 06:09:00 GMT 1979
root@motoko:~# ntpdate timex.peachnet.edu
Looking for host timex.peachnet.edu and service ntp
host found : ns2.usg.edu
12 Feb 14:23:43 ntpdate[195]: step time server 131.144.4.9 offset 851865265.938420 sec
root@motoko:~# date
Sun Feb 12 14:23:54 EST 2006
root@motoko:~# setclk -p
0215060979
root@motoko:~# setclk -s
localtime (from system): 02121924106
time (to hardware): buffer=`02121924106', thetime=`02121924106'
root@motoko:~# date
Sun Feb 12 14:24:12 EST 2006
root@motoko:~# setclk
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One interesting thing to note is the date calls setclk when it is used to set the time.  It apparently does this properly!
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root@motoko:~# date
Fri Feb 12 14:29:56 EST 1999
root@motoko:~# date 021214312006
localtime (from system): 02121931106
time (to hardware): buffer=`02121931106', thetime=`02121931106'
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This suggests that if setclk.c was modified to use a 4 digit year it would work properly.  Source code for date isn't on the system.  Running setclk after setting the time this way results in "date: bad conversion".

@Dal:

I still play around with AMIX, but I've been so busy lately the site has been a bit neglected.  I'm finding 8 hours of work followed by study and homework a bit draining.  I want to finish my degree though...

One thing I want to get done is the history section of the site.  At one point I had at least a list of names of people who had worked on AMIX, and I thought I had found the website of one of them...in the shuffle though I seem to have lost most if not all of that.  I'll have to hit Google Groups again at some point.

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I had tried this patch a while ago, works great!  I'm having trouble putting the binary on the wiki, still having MySQL problems I have to correct whenever I try something new...but in the meantime the file can be fetched from the Amix box direct:

http://failsure.net:8085/root/sbin/setclk

Thanks for the efforts to fix this, really cool to boot and have the right time without use of NTP!