Linux date as filepro sees it

[Jeff Harrison]

--- "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra at baylink.com> wrote:

> 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
> -- 

Hi - I understand that Dave was out there today
delivering new hardware.  Hopefully that will resolve
this issue.  It is still pretty strange to me that
filepro would see the date differently that what
"date" returns.

Jeff Harrison
jeffaharrison at yahoo.com

Author of JHImport and JHExport. The fastest and
easiest ways to create code for filePro Imports and
Exports. 

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