http://bugs.grommit.com/show_bug.cgi?id=593
Summary: ksh93 builtin date refuses to relive the sixties Product: ksh93-integration Version: unspecified Platform: i386 (64bit/AMD64) OS/Version: Solaris 11/Nevada Status: NEW Severity: trivial Priority: P5 Component: App/ksh93 AssignedTo: ksh93-integration-discuss at opensolaris.org ReportedBy: Alan.Coopersmith at sun.com Trying to reproduce a bug caused by VMWare having a broken TOD clock that makes the system boot with time set to -1, I tried using the ksh93 date builtin to set the time (after the Solaris /bin/date failed to do so), but the ksh93 date builtin insists on sending me back to the future: root at alf:~# date 196912310000.00 root at alf:~# date Sun Feb 21 21:41:31 PST 2010 root at alf:~# date 197012310000.00 root at alf:~# date Thu Dec 31 00:00:01 PST 1970 root at alf:~# ksh93 --version version sh (AT&T Research) 93t 2008-11-04 root at alf:~# uname -a SunOS alf 5.11 snv_101 i86pc i386 i86pc (I also tried date -e 0, thinking that would be close, but got "invalid date specification" - guess -e is output format only, not input format.) -- Configure bugmail: http://bugs.grommit.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug, or are watching the assignee.