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From: Adam Myrow <amyrow@midsouth.rr.com>
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Maybe your hwclock binary is corrupt?  One thing to try since you said you
are using Slackware is to reinstall the util-linux package.  This contains
several essential utilities including hwclock.  I'd give that a shot.  If
that fails, remove libsafe and try again to use hwclock.  Good luck.