Happy Sadie Hawkins Day! Many of us run our TSM systems on IBM AIX, so heed the following warning from IBM concerning the date command. This is only an issue Sunday, February 29, Leap Year Day. After that we can safely ignore this issue for four more years. Or apply the patch.
Roger Deschner University of Illinois at Chicago [EMAIL PROTECTED] = All of our systems will be fully Year 2000 Compliant by Jan 1, 1900. = ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 11:09:53 AM CST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Special Notice: Leap Year issue for the 'date' command in AIX 5.2 [IMAGE] [IMAGE] [IMAGE] You have received this email because u52983 is subscribed to support bulletins for selected topics. Following are updates for one or more of the topics you requested. Leap Year issue for the "date" command in AIX 5.2 The date command cannot set February 29th of a leap year when specified in "mmddHHMM" format. This problem only affects AIX 5.2. Other releases of AIX are not affected. Example: Executing the following command produces an error. # date 02291111 date: Specified value out of range. The workaround is to also specify the year, as in: # date 0229111104 The fix for this problem will be made available in APAR IY53552. When available, APAR IY53552 can be obtained from IBM eServer pSeries Support at: http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/support/pseries/fixes Prior to the APAR availability, for cases where the workaround is not adequate, an interim patch is available from: ftp://service.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/iy53552/ Back to Top Supported products Find end of support dates for AIX and software running on AIX pSeries support Visit pSeries Support for a wide array of technical resources. Subscription options Update your profile Unsubscribe More News Sign up for customized weekly newsletter from IBM __________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________ IBM, eServer and pSeries are trademarks or registered trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation in the United States or other countries, or both.
