Monday, March 2, 2009

Systems may Experience 95 Year Time Jumps


I received a very strange SunAlert Email today
One entry on the list explains a lot of strange entries I've been seeing in historical documents for 1914 on Wikipedia.
Better patch those systems before history starts changing!

1914 Yikes! Is that A V240 I see behind the Archduke Ferdinand?

"This jump will also be reflected in system and application logfiles and database records."
For example:

$ tail -3 /var/cron/log

CMD: [ -x /usr/lib/gss/gsscred_clean ] && /usr/lib/gss/gsscred_clean
root 10996 c Tue Apr 28 03:30:00 1914
root 10996 c Tue Apr 28 03:30:00 1914

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Sun Alert ID: 253628

Title: Certain Solaris SPARC Systems may Experience 95 Year

Time Jumps

Product: Solaris 8 Operating System, Solaris 9 Operating System,

Solaris 10 Operating System, OpenSolaris

Category: Data Loss, Availability

Release Phase: Workaround

Workaround Date: 27-Feb-2009

To view this Sun Alert document please go to the following URL:

http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-66-253628-1


Oh man! My nose is starting to bleed again.

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