[Bug 23426] Re: Gnome wont start if date is incorrect.

[sam tygier]

i have spoken by email to the developer of hwclock.

he said he will change Hwclock in the next release to recognize a
negative result from mktime() as invalid, so it will recognize a
pre-1970 value of the hardware clock as an error.

a quicker solution would be putting something in /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh
to detect pre 1970 dates.

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Gnome wont start if date is incorrect.
https://launchpad.net/bugs/23426