Date problem

[bricenowa]

Dear all,

I have a problem about date on Solaris 6.
I change it using date command and the date go back to wrong date.
# date
Sun Dec 31 04:00:02 GMT 1967
# date 0102200606
Mon Jan 2 20:06:00 GMT 2006
#date
Sun Dec 31 04:00:00 GMT 1967

the system doesn't maintain the date.
the messages file doesn´t show any errors.

I saw that error was report by Eko Suhanto(08 Jul 2003), but the solution wasn´t published.

what's the problem on my system?
regards,

 

[Annihilannic]

Have you patched this system recently? What is the current kernel revision (uname -r)?

Are you running ntpdate from cron, or the xntpd daemon, or anything like that to manage time on this server?

Annihilannic.

 

[bricenowa]

I don´t patch this system recently, the revision is 5.6. I aren´t running ntpdate, xntpd or anything that to manage time.

 

[Annihilannic]

Sorry, uname -v is what I meant (I had my Linux head on).

If it hasn't been patched, maybe it needs to be...?

Annihilannic.

 

[mrn]

try clock -w after changing the time

Mike

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[spamly]

I'm guessing this is an old system. I've seen the same symptoms when my NVRAM went bad. I had to call Sun and ask for a new chip with the same serial number for my application.