SUMMARY: TOY clock

From: Daniel Lungu (lungu@nagra.com)
Date: Wed Jan 21 2004 - 06:21:55 EST

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ANSWER
The TOY clock is the BIOS CLOCK accessable from SRM prompt.

THANKS TO
Lucien HERCAUD
Nikola Milutinovic

QUESTION
  What is the TOY clock in the warning below?

>>> boot dka0
  Alpha boot: available memory from 0xee4000 to 0xff3c000
  Compaq Tru64 UNIX V5.1A (Rev. 1885); Wed May 15 12:40:17 CEST 2002
  physical memory = 256.00 megabytes.
  available memory = 240.34 megabytes.
  using 943 buffers containing 7.36 megabytes of memory
  Firmware revision: 5.9-4
  PALcode: UNIX version 1.86-68
  COMPAQ AlphaServer DS10 617 MHz
  <...>
  NetRAIN configured.
  i2c: Server Management Hardware Present

  WARNING: preposterous time in TOY clock -- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!!

  vm_swap_init: swap is set to eager allocation mode
  Checking device naming:
      Passed.
  Checking local filesystems
  <...>

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Wed Jan 21 11:41:32 CET 2004

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