(Yet Another Y2K Problem)
I used to use 'nist' to sync my system's time. This is NOT the Perl script
of the same name to be found in Freshmeat, it's a compliled executable. I
don't know where I originally found it, but either *it* or the server it
pulls from by default is not compliant. It returns the current time, but
it sets the system date to the current day and month, *1910*.
I was experiencing lots of oddness until this was fixed. Fortunately, the
accompanying call to `hwclock` to force the system date into HW was
failing. At the time, I assumed this meant either hwclock was goofy or my
system's BIOS was goofy. This *may* have been the cause of a strange Java
lockup that involved a Java clock that read my system time and may have caused
Gnome's panel to stop coming up. That's most likely from the system date
being changed so radically in mid-stream, not from odd-date sensitivity.
Fortunately the BIOS is OK and `/sbin/hwclock --hctosys` restored the
proper system date.
I don't know where I got this, I can't find it anymore, but beware.
-W-
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