ANSWER
The TOY clock is the BIOS CLOCK accessable from SRM prompt.
THANKS TO
Lucien HERCAUD
Nikola Milutinovic
SEE ALSO
http://www.alphalinux.org/archives/linux-alpha/January2000/0011.html
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
<...>
# date
Wed Jan 21 11:41:32 CET 2004
Received on Wed Jan 21 2004 - 11:21:12 NZDT