Bill Marcum wrote:

> On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 17:11:29 -0400, Madhusudan Singh
>   <spammers-go-here@spam.invalid> wrote: 
>
> If it wasn't relatively new, I'd say the CMOS battery was dying.  You
> might check that if it happens again.
>
> Did the rdate command give any output?  I use ntpdate, it shows the
> corrected time or says if it can't contact the server.
>
>

The rdate command works as expected. -p option prints the correct time, and
-s option sets it (a subsequent date command confirms it).

I rebooted the machine and saw these messages (roughly verbatim as they went
by rather fast) just before grub :

CMOS date wrong
CMOS date not set

So, it is a CMOS problem. I have worked with fairly old machines in the past
(as old as 4-5 years) and have not seen a CMOS problem of this sort. This
laptop was purchased about 6 months ago, and yet ...

Could I have possibly screwed up the configuration somehow yesterday (was
working fine till yesterday) resulting in the OS not storing the date in
the CMOS ?

If so, are there some config files that I could look into ?

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