Comment My Y2K brush with death (Score 2) 719
I had this Y2K problem with my Linux box: When I checked to see that my CMOS clock rolled over corectly, hwclock aborted with a message saying mktime(3) failed. If anyone else has the problem, the solution is to get the source to hwclock and compile against an up-to-date version of libc (glibc2.1.2 worked for me).
