http://bugs.grommit.com/show_bug.cgi?id=593
Summary: ksh93 builtin date refuses to relive the sixties
Product: ksh93-integration
Version: unspecified
Platform: i386 (64bit/AMD64)
OS/Version: Solaris 11/Nevada
Status: NEW
Severity: trivial
Priority: P5
Component: App/ksh93
AssignedTo: ksh93-integration-discuss at opensolaris.org
ReportedBy: Alan.Coopersmith at sun.com
Trying to reproduce a bug caused by VMWare having a broken TOD clock that
makes the system boot with time set to -1, I tried using the ksh93 date
builtin to set the time (after the Solaris /bin/date failed to do so),
but the ksh93 date builtin insists on sending me back to the future:
root at alf:~# date 196912310000.00
root at alf:~# date
Sun Feb 21 21:41:31 PST 2010
root at alf:~# date 197012310000.00
root at alf:~# date
Thu Dec 31 00:00:01 PST 1970
root at alf:~# ksh93 --version
version sh (AT&T Research) 93t 2008-11-04
root at alf:~# uname -a
SunOS alf 5.11 snv_101 i86pc i386 i86pc
(I also tried date -e 0, thinking that would be close, but got "invalid date
specification" - guess -e is output format only, not input format.)
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