Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!decwrl!labrea!jade!ucbvax!husc6!psuvax1!ehrlich From: ehrlich@psuvax1.psu.edu (Dan Ehrlich) Newsgroups: news.software.b Subject: Re: expire: Unparsable date "31 Dec 69 23:59:59 GMT" Message-ID: <3049@psuvax1.psu.edu> Date: Tue, 3-Nov-87 17:44:51 EST Article-I.D.: psuvax1.3049 Posted: Tue Nov 3 17:44:51 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 7-Nov-87 06:36:18 EST References: <1187@vu-vlsi.UUCP> Reply-To: ehrlich@psuvax1.psu.edu (Dan Ehrlich) Organization: Penn State University, University Park, PA Lines: 16 In article <1187@vu-vlsi.UUCP> perry@vu-vlsi.UUCP (Rick Perry) writes: >Ever since I applied patches 9 though 11 I've been getting several of these >error messages: > > expire: Unparsable date "31 Dec 69 23:59:59 GMT" >... I do not know why you would be getting these, but I do know that the time 1 Jan 70 00:00:00 GMT is the zero time base used by most UNIX systems. Maybe there are null dates in your history files? -- Dan Ehrlich The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Computer Science 333 Whitmore Laboratory, University Park, PA 16802 +1 814 863 1142 or +1 814 865 9723