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Date:      Mon, 11 Jun 2001 08:24:10 -0400
From:      "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>
To:        Pete French <pfrench@firstcallgroup.co.uk>
Cc:        msmith@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Very odd clock problem 
Message-ID:  <200106111224.f5BCOAI70504@whizzo.transsys.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 11 Jun 2001 10:47:54 BST." <E159OIc-000Pd8-00@dilbert.fcg.co.uk> 
References:  <E159OIc-000Pd8-00@dilbert.fcg.co.uk> 

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> What happens specificly is this: I get a user (and its always the same user)
> who complains that the dates on his outgoing emails are being timestamped in
> 1933. I login, type 'date' and sure enough it says it is a date in
> 1933. I then reset the date. There is nothing in the log files to indicate
> what has happened - other than the date on other messages jumping back
> to sometime in May (the year isnt logged in /var/log/messages I assume,
> but the month change is very obvious and I am assuming this co-incides
> with the year date change).

It's just a long shot, but when you log in as this user, and run 'date -u'
or reset the TZ environment variable, do you still get something bizzare?
Is is possible there's some weirdness in the local timezone this user
might be trying to use?

louie

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