[SPARCbook] WARNING: TOD clock not initialized -- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!

[Hugo.van.der.Kooij at caiw.nl]

On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Arno Uhlmelmahei wrote:

> > Doug Moore wrote:
> > 
> > After attempting to set the correct time on my SparcBook 3 the system
> > locked up hard, I pulled power, and I haven't been able to reboot
> > since.
> > FYI, I had been using Pause-O to suspend the system.
> > I was in "su" mode at the time I used the date command.
> > The command I used was "date 08301415" because "date 0008301415" would
> > not take eventhough that is the correct usage (i.e. yymmddhhmm)
>     
>     For what it's worth,  mmddHHMMyy is the correct sequence, so 
>     date 0830141500 is what you should have entered.

Wasn't the unpatched date command in Solaris 2.6 one of the few Y2k
issues?

Hugo.

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