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From: jpoplaws@telesci.UUCP (Joseph E Poplawski)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: date:  bad conversion
Message-ID: <891@telesci.UUCP>
Date: 23 Nov 89 04:07:48 GMT
References: <452@abel.UUCP>
Reply-To: jpoplaws@telesci.UUCP (Joseph E Poplawski)
Organization: Fantasci Incorporated
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In article <452@abel.UUCP> jma@abel.UUCP (Jeff Abrahamson) writes:
>
>	I have been having news articles come in and put in *files*
>with bad dates.  That is, I can do an "ls -l nnnn" and find out how long
>they've been here, but if I try to do a "touch nnnn", I get the
>message "date: bad conversion".  This is the file!  
>
>	Has anyone seen this?  It doesn't seem to be just the expire
>bug, though, since most articles expire normally.

Well, I don't think it is only a news problem because I get this same error
message when my system is booting up.  And I have yet to determine why.  All
I know is that if my system is down for more than a few minutes, the time 
will be totally screwed up after booting it back up!

Any Ideas?

-Jo

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