From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Oct 18 15:43: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ns.clientlogic.com (mail-buffalo-usa.clientlogic.com [207.51.66.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 945A814F5C for ; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 15:42:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ChrisMic@clientlogic.com) Received: by site0s1 with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) id ; Mon, 18 Oct 1999 18:43:00 -0400 Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105D0B@site2s1> From: Christopher Michaels To: "FreeBSD Questions (E-mail)" Subject: General Question: System date in FreeBSD 3.x Date: Mon, 18 Oct 1999 18:46:03 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, This is a general question. I thought that the date/time on a UNIX system, and in the kernel was tracked in seconds from the epoch (1/1/70). But, recently I had a problem where cvsup kept dumping core on my friends new 3.3-release installation. What I came to find out was that the system date was set to the year 1904. Fixing the date resolved this issue, but it brought up the question. How exactly does FreeBSD keep time internally? Is a negative time allowed? -Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message