Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 08:24:10 -0400 From: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> To: Pete French <pfrench@firstcallgroup.co.uk> Cc: msmith@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Very odd clock problem Message-ID: <200106111224.f5BCOAI70504@whizzo.transsys.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 11 Jun 2001 10:47:54 BST." <E159OIc-000Pd8-00@dilbert.fcg.co.uk> References: <E159OIc-000Pd8-00@dilbert.fcg.co.uk>
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> What happens specificly is this: I get a user (and its always the same user) > who complains that the dates on his outgoing emails are being timestamped in > 1933. I login, type 'date' and sure enough it says it is a date in > 1933. I then reset the date. There is nothing in the log files to indicate > what has happened - other than the date on other messages jumping back > to sometime in May (the year isnt logged in /var/log/messages I assume, > but the month change is very obvious and I am assuming this co-incides > with the year date change). It's just a long shot, but when you log in as this user, and run 'date -u' or reset the TZ environment variable, do you still get something bizzare? Is is possible there's some weirdness in the local timezone this user might be trying to use? louie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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