Patch Name: PHCO_13928 Patch Description: s300_400 9.10 date(1) changes for the year 2000 Creation Date: 98/01/27 Post Date: 98/01/30 Hardware Platforms - OS Releases: s300_400: 9.10 Products: N/A Filesets: UX-CORE Automatic Reboot?: No Status: General Release Critical: No Path Name: /hp-ux_patches/s300_400/9.X/PHCO_13928 Symptoms: PHCO_13928: If a user attempts to set the date with a year in the range 2038 through 2069 ([yy] value of 38 to 69), an incorrect warning message is printed, and the system clock is set to an unsupported date (something prior to January 1, 1970). Defect Description: PHCO_13928: The code did not test for this error condition. SR: 4701379735 Patch Files: /bin/date what(1) Output: /bin/date: PATCH/9_1 PHCO_13928 $Revision 66.10 $ sum(1) Output: 37627 16 /bin/date Patch Conflicts: None Patch Dependencies: None Hardware Dependencies: None Other Dependencies: None Supersedes: None Equivalent Patches: None Patch Package Size: 60 KBytes Installation Instructions: Please review all instructions and the Hewlett-Packard SupportLine User Guide or your Hewlett-Packard support terms and conditions for precautions, scope of license, restrictions, and, limitation of liability and warranties, before installing this patch. ------------------------------------------------------------ 1. Back up your system before installing a patch. 2. Copy the patch to your /tmp directory and unshar it: cd /tmp cp patch_source/PHCO_13928 . sh PHCO_13928 3. Become root and run update: /etc/update [-r [kernel_gen_file]] -s \ /tmp/PHCO_13928.updt PHCO_13928 Update moves the original software to /system/PHCO_13928/orig. Keep this file to recover from any potential problems. You should move the .text file to /system/PHCO_13928 for future reference. To put this patch on a magnetic tape and update from the tape drive, use dd: dd if=PHCO_13928.updt of=/dev/rmt/0m bs=2048 Special Installation Instructions: None