Couldn't change time/date on cold boot

[Chris Rende]

[ Nixdorf Targon M35/50 TOS 3.2 - Pyramid 9810 OSx 4.0 ]

The other day we lost power. During the cold boot procedure the system displays
the current date/time and asks if it is correct. In my case the time was off
by the few hours that the system was down. After replying "n" to the query
about the time, I was prompted to enter the correct time, which I did.
Having done this a bizillion times, I even entered the correct time in the
correct format. :-)

The system asked me again if what it displayed was indeed the correct time.

However, it hadn't made my change to the time!

In fact, no matter how many times I tried I couldn't change the time!
I had no choice but to answer "y" in order to continue with the boot procedure.

I brought the system up to multi-user mode, shutdown to single user
mode, fixed the time, rebooted, and brought the system back up to multi-user
mode. (Which worked OK). [I didn't try to change the time in multi-user mode].

Any ideas why I couln't change the date/time while booting?

car.
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