"Clock Skew detected error"

[Barry K. Nathan]

[snip]
> boots with the year '1994' after setting it to 2000(as mine does); you need
> to set the cmos clock to '1972' (has the same days as 2000) and add the
> line:
> 
> date --set='+28 years'
> 
> to your init scripts.  This will make your 486 'usable' under Linux/GNU for
> another 27 years. But, then, YMMV.  ;-)
[snip]

FWIW, most PC's I've encountered don't let you set the CMOS clock back
beyond 1980. (Once I tried to boot a Linux system with the clock set past
2038; the date in Linux was automatically turned back exactly 100 years
IIRC.)

I don't have time right now to test this for Feb. 29th compliance, but I
believe that setting the year to 1996 and having the date command add 4
years should work, as should any other combinations involving the date
command adding multiples of four years. Perhaps having date just add any
arbitrary amount of time will also work, but I don't have time to test that
either.

-Barry K. Nathan <barryn en pobox.com>

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