I'm not using 8.0 so some of this is a little fuzzy and I apologize for that but what you need to do is add a parameter to the hwclock function that should be run at some point during your boot up. Try the following - at least this should get you on the right road. cd /etc/init.d grep -n hwclock * this should return a list of files with the hwclock command and the line numbers the command occurs on. These are the files you need to edit. If you could open the files and modify the files so that the "hwclock" command is now "hwclock --badyear". There may be other options listed with the hwclock and you want to make sure to keep those - i.e. if it was "hwclock -a" then you want "hwclock -a -badyear". The badyear option will ignore the year returned by the bios clock and instead make a guess from the last year the system was set to. There are some problems with this method if the system is up for longer then a year and such but for the most part this should solve your problem. You may need to reboot a couple of times initially to get it started but other then that it works fine. John W Higgins john@wishdev.com -----Original Message----- From: Hangga [mailto:hangga@hotpop.com] Sent: Monday, May 27, 2002 4:04 AM To: Suse International Subject: [SLE] Linux & Y2K BlankDear All Linuxer, I've learned about Linux just about three weeks ago. So I'm trully a newbie for linux. I decided to use Suse, because the installation is simple. So, my computer is 486 clas, AMD processor (5x86 133Mhz), 64Mb Memory. After installation, Suse detect the hardware correctly, except this: Suse failed to detect the correct Years, it said 2099 or sometimes said 1996. So, I have to correct this problem manually, when KDE appears, by changing the date-bar. This is Y2K compliance. When I used MS-Windows, I put dos command in the autoxec.bat file (setyear 2002), that access to the Y2K Dos program. My question: is there any program or application on Linux that could fix my Y2K problem? Suse 8.0 support all processor since intel386, and minimum requirements for this suse 8.0 is 486 processor. Best, Hangga -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com