Re: Time of Day Bug

[Stefan Hinker - Sun Germany - ENS Central Europe <Stefan.Hinker@Germany>]

Hi Dan!

put the attached file in pilotmgr/lib/perl5/Time
and be happy ;-)

or see the faq on the pilotmgr site.

cheers,
stefan

>Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 13:53:38 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Dan Mick <dan.mick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: Time of Day Bug
>To: pilotmgr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Tom.Schroeder@Corp
>Cc: tom.schroeder@Corp
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>> I tried to open Pilot Manager and received a notice that the OS
>> (Solaris) has a bug that causes the date to slowly travel backward in
>> time when using US/Pacific and I should establish a new timezone; e.g.
>> PST8PDT.  I cannot get Pilot Manager to work at all.  Can someone tell
>> me how to fix this?
>
>Are you talking about this notice?
>
>        "Congratulations!  Your OS has a bug in the time of day ".
>        "code.  This bug causes dates to slowly travel backwards in time ".
>        "and interferes with PilotManager's performance.  This bug is ".
>        "caused by having a bad timezone environment variable setting. ".
>        "Your timezone is set to\n\n\t$ENV{TZ}\n\nYou might try setting ".
>        "it to a more specific timezone, for example US/Pacific maps ".
>        "to:\n\n\tPST8PDT\n\n" .
>        "You'll need to set the correct value for your time zone, of ".
>        "course.\n\nPilotManager will not function until this is fixed.".
>        "\n(This is NOT a bug in PilotManager!)");
>        
>What in this message is unclear about how to fix this?
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Stefan Hinker                                      Sun Germany ENS - Munich
             Enterprise Network  -  at your Service 
              email: Stefan.Hinker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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