Have an old Gigabit Ethernet Powerbook G4 with a dead PRAM battery and every time I start it up (well after 48hrs or so unplugged) the date reverts to the default. This is annoying only in that the ...

What I would do is have a file named /etc/thisyear that has the current year in it. Then I would add a few lines to /etc/rc.d/rc.local to get the current time, day and month with the date command. And ...