Date command weirdness

From: Mark.Barnes@FT.com
Date: Thu Sep 11 2003 - 09:52:31 EDT


Folks,
Has anyone come up against this one before. I can set the date to now
(ish) and but the machine still thinks it is 1977.....

bash-2.05# date 0911144703
Thu Sep 11 14:47:00 BST 2003
bash-2.05# date
Mon Sep 5 08:47:40 BST 1977
bash-2.05#

Some info on the machine in question

o/s - 5.7 Generic_106541-02

bash-2.05# ./prtdiag -v
System Configuration: Sun Microsystems sun4u Sun Ultra 5/10 UPA/PCI
(UltraSPARC-IIi 440MHz)
System clock frequency: 110 MHz
Memory size: 512 Megabytes

========================= CPUs =========================

                    Run Ecache CPU CPU
Brd CPU Module MHz MB Impl. Mask
--- --- ------- ----- ------ ------ ----
 0 0 0 440 2.0 12 9.1

========================= IO Cards =========================

     Bus# Freq
Brd Type MHz Slot Name Model
--- ---- ---- ---- --------------------------------
----------------------
 0 PCI-1 33 1 ebus
 0 PCI-1 33 1 network-SUNW,hme
 0 PCI-1 33 2 SUNW,m64B ATY,GT-C
 0 PCI-1 33 3 ide-pci1095,646

No failures found in System
===========================

========================= HW Revisions =========================

ASIC Revisions:
---------------
Cheerio: ebus Rev 1

System PROM revisions:
----------------------
  OBP 3.19.4 1999/04/28 15:05 POST 3.0.7 1999/04/28 14:24

any help gratefully received - I will sumarise

Cheers
***********************************
 Mark Barnes
 Unix System Administrator
 Financial Times
 020 7873 3909
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