Re: Weird behavior of EFI shell date command

On  3 Aug 2004, Stelios Kyriacou <moderator@...> wrote:
> 
> A few weeks ago  some of the ia64 itanium 2 nodes came up with a totally screwed up date  (year 1936):
> Thu Jul 16 14:27:58 EDT 1936
> When i try to fix it using EFI shell i get the following error:
> Shell> date
> RTC : Invalid time/date field parameter

> One way around this problem was to reset the CMOS by disconnecting
> the battery -- but it is somwhat painful to do it since the nodes are
> not in the same building as my office.

> Is there an other way to fix the hardware clock with EFI or with any
> other method?

You can do this from Linux:

  sudo /sbin/hwclock --set --date "08/04/2000 08:33:25"

or you can try setting it through the BMC monitor, if your machine has
an option for that.

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Martin