Warty PPC - Cannot start gnome configuration daemon

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 10:17:38PM -0400, volvoguy wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 14:41:52 -0400, Will Backman <whb at ceimaine.org> wrote:
> > SOLVED - Hardware clock was at year 1903.  Update date made things work.
> > Odd.
> 
> That IS odd. Apple wasn't making computers in 1903 was it? :-)

The Mac epoch, i.e. the origin from which it counts time, is 1 January
1904, local time (so may be 31 December 1903 in some places). If your
system's PRAM gets reset then it tends to revert to that.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]