Re: date rolled back to 2000

From: Jean-Marc Monnez (monnez.jean-marc@AGORA.MSA.FR)
Date: Fri Nov 15 2002 - 05:17:46 EST


Could it be a "foolish" TZ variable content ?
You may run "TZ= date" command to get the UTC time on each machine (must be
close values everywhere) and compare.

-- JMM

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Jean-Marc MONNEZ
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"Lane, Debbie" wrote :

> We did stop xntpd, as it was a suspect. The time server syncs HP and SUN
> boxes as well. The HP and SUN boxes did not have the date roll back
> problem.
> Any other tips on how to determine what the cause was?
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Verzal [mailto:Bill_Verzal@BCBSIL.COM]
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> Subject: Re: date rolled back to 2000
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> If you run time synchronization (xntpd or timed), check your master server.
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> We have several RS/6000s running AIX 4.3.3_ML10. Between 8:31 and 8:41 PST
> the year changed to 2000 on ALL AIX servers. I don't have an explanation
> as
> to why or how this happened. There are not any errors in the error logs.
> Has anyone else experienced this?
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