Date: Fri, 2 Feb 96 6:16:51 CST From: Joe Greco <jgreco@solaria.sol.net> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Time travelling news server Message-ID: <199602021216.GAA15425@solaria.sol.net>
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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
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Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net
Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847
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