Mac Book Pro Issues

w,Hey there!
This is pretty Random, Im hoping someone can help me.
My mac is abouuutttt 3 years old... its had a good long life and up until 2 weeks ago was working perfectly.
My charger died about 2 weeks ago, I ordered one online and it arrived all good. Ever since I've plugged it back in my computer has sooooooo many issues that its never had before. First thing is its now saying the battery needs replacing. Now, i totally get that its old, i used to work in an apple store and have always been really really good about not leaving it plugged in etc so it doesn't die, before my charger broke it was getting at least 4-6 hours charge still. Now its barely making 2, and once i get to about 30% it just turns off. Not runs out of battery the computer just turns itself off. Because i can then go and turn it back on without plugging it in.
The second issue is that the date keeps going back to january 1994. It has NEVER done this before charger died, not once. Now every single time my computer turns back on i have to try and change the date and time back to today, Which is all well and good but System Preferences doesn't seem to want to open any more either... now i figure this is something to do with the date/time being all screwy but NO IDEA how to get it to stop doing this.
The third problem is the mouse pad thingie (can't remember what its called... Trackpad?) doesn't seem to click either.
As i said i get that its an old computer, But all ways been well looked after as i used to work for mac and as i said the day the charger stopped working is when i had all these issues. Can someone please help? Thank you!

Sooo If i just get the battery replaced then all the other issues will stop. Including the time date thing?

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