That's interesting James, but it is extremely unlikely in my
experience. I have use loads of old Macs, scavenged from the tops of
cupboards in MOD and it was always the battery that needed replacing.
Chris
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On 21 Oct 2005, at 13:00, jking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Unix calculates the current time by looking at the number of
> milliseconds
> expired since a date in early 1970 - which was its birth. If you
> computers
> hardware clock has failed/lost its contents/not incrementing when you
> would indeed get a data around 1970s.
> Sounds to me like a hardware problem. inside most computes there is
> a real
> time clock which is kept alive when the computer is off either via a
> rechargable battery or a low loss capacitor. Sounds like the real time
> clock has either failed or the battery died. I don't know about the
> mac
> but on the pc all the configuration data for the pc is also held by
> the
> real time clock in cmos memory (low power consumption) if the clock
> loses
> power the pc will complain about loss of configuaration data. Have
> you had
> any such message?
> Regards
> James
>
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