Re: "funny" date return - Summary

From: Alan Kong <kkkong_at_ee.cuhk.edu.hk>
Date: Fri Jan 18 2008 - 01:03:48 EST
Thanks to:

John Martinez <rolnif@mac.com>
Ric Anderson <ric@Opus1.COM>
"Musa Williams" <musa.williams@gmail.com>

Suggested that the hardware clock might be gone.


Regards
Alan



Alan Kong wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The date function on our Sun Sparc Ultra5 went crazy. Here was the 
> return of the date function:
>
> sparc37:/home3/staff/kkkong% uname -a
> SunOS sparc37 5.8 Generic_108528-24 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10
> sparc37:/home3/staff/kkkong% date
> Sun Dec 31 08:40:01 HKT 1967
> sparc37:/home3/staff/kkkong% date
> Sun Dec 31 08:40:00 HKT 1967
> sparc37:/home3/staff/kkkong% date
> Sun Dec 31 08:40:02 HKT 1967
> sparc37:/home3/staff/kkkong% date
> Sun Dec 31 08:40:00 HKT 1967
> sparc37:/home3/staff/kkkong% date
> Fri Jan 18 11:33:14 HKT 2008
> sparc37:/home3/staff/kkkong% date
> Fri Jan 18 11:33:17 HKT 2008
>
> Could our Sparc Ultra 5 been hacked? Or h/w problem?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Regards
> Alan
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