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Date:      Tue, 27 Nov 2001 20:00:23 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
To:        alpha@freebsd.org
Cc:        gallatin@cs.duke.edu
Subject:   Re: Stable build breakage on the alpha
Message-ID:  <200111280400.fAS40NU56058@vashon.polstra.com>
In-Reply-To: <15364.21292.545322.479649@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
References:  <XFMail.011127164039.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20011128025449.A12023@cicely8.cicely.de> <200111280241.fAS2f7K55939@vashon.polstra.com> <15364.21292.545322.479649@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>

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In article <15364.21292.545322.479649@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>,
Andrew Gallatin  <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> wrote:
> 
> John Polstra writes:
>  > 
>  > I have another clue.  Something time-related is seriously screwed up
>  > on this machine:
>  > 
>  > alpha$ date
>  > Thu Nov  9 15:20:50 PST 1933
>  > alpha$ date +%s
>  > -1140568746
>  > 
> 
> You dual booted Tru64.

You amaze me. :-)  That's exactly what I did.

> It keeps its clock in a different formant
> (adds 52 years or so & confuses the bejeezus out of our TOY clock
> handling routine).  I have a fix in current for this (taken from
> NetBSD) which I need to MFC.  Set the date by hand for now..

I did that and checked out the src tree again.  I'm optimistic it
will work this time.  Thanks for the enlightenment!

John
-- 
  John Polstra
  John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.                        Seattle, Washington USA
  "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence."  -- Chögyam Trungpa


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