Linux date as filepro sees it

Jay R. Ashworth jra at baylink.com
Thu Oct 26 06:45:32 PDT 2006


On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 06:55:09PM -0700, Jeff Harrison wrote:
> Hi.  I have a customer that has Suse Linux 9.0 and
> filepro 5.0  When I log in I see that the date/time is
> Oct 25 21:44 - When I do a date command I get a
> similar answer.  However, when I go into filepro and
> examine the @td variable in the debugger I get
> 10/26/06
> 
> Anyone have a clue as to what is going on here?  Any
> help would be appreciated.

Hi, Jeff.  :-)

Time zone, probably; UTC is the next day that late.

Dave mis-explained this to me on the phone: they have a bad hardware
clock, and were (originally) not running NTP; I fixed that two trips-up
ago...

Cheers,
-- jra
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