Jim:

You need to bring up your 918 normally WITHOUT trying to enter the date/time during bootup.  After you get the system back up, make sure that there are NO OTHER USERS on your system, then:

1. :SETCLOCK TIMEZONE=W6:00 (for CST)
2. :SETCLOCK;CANCEL
3. :SETCLOCK DATE=m/d/yyyy;time=hh:mm:ss;now
4. Shutdown and reboot.

You should be OK from that point forward.  We found out the hard way after we finished up our Y2K testing and had to reset the date.  Our panicked call to the Response Center resulted in the above instructions.  It appears to happen to the 918 only!!

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>>> Jim Phillips <[log in to unmask]> Thursday, February 17, 2000 3:50:46 PM >>>
Okay, I'm here in El Paso attempting to get our 918 back up and running
after months of neglect and a disk crash.  I've rebooted the system several
times and noticed that the time is incorrect.  No big deal says I, since I
have to do an INSTALL anyway, I'll just correct the time before I do the
restore of the system backup.

So, I INSTALL from an SLT and then when I boot from disk (getting ready to
restore all the files and accounts), I change the time from 6:17 PM
backwards to 3:15 PM.  That was over half an hour ago and the START
NORECOVERY is still sitting there, unmoved since I entered the new time.

Any ideas on how long I can expect this to take, or how to avoid it in the
future?


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