From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Feb 2 09:06:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id JAA01316 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 2 Feb 1996 09:06:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id JAA01230 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 1996 09:06:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from anacreon.sol.net (anacreon.sol.net [206.55.64.116]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id EAA06412 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 1996 04:16:49 -0800 Received: from solaria.sol.net (solaria.sol.net [206.55.65.75]) by anacreon.sol.net (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id GAA14112 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 1996 06:15:39 -0600 Received: from localhost by solaria.sol.net (8.5/8.5) id GAA15425; Fri, 2 Feb 1996 06:16:53 -0600 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199602021216.GAA15425@solaria.sol.net> Subject: Time travelling news server To: hackers@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 2 Feb 96 6:16:51 CST X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL65] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Okay, I just had my "what the F***" experience of the week. I noticed some strangeness on my news server "news.sol.net". While examining it, I typed "date" and got hummin# date Sun Jan 15 02:51:14 CST 1928 WHAT????????? I quickly compiled a printf("%ld\n", time(NULL)) and got: -1324220930 Now, xntpdc was happily chugging along on the system. Matter of fact, when I killed it and did an "ntpdate ntp2.sol.net", it claimed a very small offset from ntp2.sol.net.... maybe a complete (or half, negative) wrap-around? It's been a week for problems with my news box. :-/ ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847