Patch Name: PHCO_14614 Patch Description: s300_400 9.10 libportnls.a changes for the year 2000 Creation Date: 98/03/26 Post Date: 98/04/28 Hardware Platforms - OS Releases: s300_400: 9.10 Products: N/A Filesets: PROG-AUX Automatic Reboot?: No Status: General Release Critical: No Path Name: /hp-ux_patches/s300_400/9.X/PHCO_14614 Symptoms: PHCO_14614: When using the date or date/time routines in libportnls.a, processing a date whose year value is year 2000 or greater will result in a 'year out of range' error. Defect Description: PHCO_14614: The code was not designed with the year 2000 in mind. SR: 4701386557 Patch Files: /usr/lib/libportnls.a what(1) Output: /usr/lib/libportnls.a: PATCH/9_1 PHCO_14614 $Revision 72.2 $ sum(1) Output: 64583 114 /usr/lib/libportnls.a Patch Conflicts: None Patch Dependencies: None Hardware Dependencies: None Other Dependencies: None Supersedes: None Equivalent Patches: None Patch Package Size: 110 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_14614 . sh PHCO_14614 3. Become root and run update: /etc/update [-r [kernel_gen_file]] -s \ /tmp/PHCO_14614.updt PHCO_14614 Update moves the original software to /system/PHCO_14614/orig. Keep this file to recover from any potential problems. You should move the .text file to /system/PHCO_14614 for future reference. To put this patch on a magnetic tape and update from the tape drive, use dd: dd if=PHCO_14614.updt of=/dev/rmt/0m bs=2048 Special Installation Instructions: None