[rescue] Y2K

Alan Perry alanp at snowmoose.com
Sat Jan 18 19:27:49 EST 2025


I used to do the y2k fix by copying a replacement date command binary 
that still takes a two-digit year but uses 2000 as the base if the year 
was less than some value, maybe 70. I don't know if this patch will 
change the date command to one that works that way.

On 1/18/25 1:54 PM, silcreval wrote:
> Thank you Alan
>
>> On 18 Jan 2025, at 21:23, Alan Perry via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Here is the patch.
>>
>> alan
>>
>> On 1/18/25 1:08 PM, silcreval via rescue wrote:
>>> Fresh after installing SunOS 4.1.4 I'd like to change the date from 1925 to something more recent :-)
>>>
>>> Is there a patch for 4.1.4 to allow setting the date - looks like 5bin/date and bin/date both use a 2 digit year.
>>>
>>> - Ian
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