Happy Sadie Hawkins Day! Many of us run our TSM systems on IBM AIX, so
heed the following warning from IBM concerning the date command. This is
only an issue Sunday, February 29, Leap Year Day. After that we can
safely ignore this issue for four more years. Or apply the patch.
Roger Deschner University of Illinois at Chicago rogerd AT uic DOT edu
= All of our systems will be fully Year 2000 Compliant by Jan 1, 1900. =
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Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 11:09:53 AM CST
From: pSeries_TechBulletin AT us.ibm DOT com
To: rogerd AT uic DOT edu
Subject: Special Notice: Leap Year issue for the 'date' command in AIX 5.2
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Leap Year issue for the "date" command in AIX 5.2
The date command cannot set February 29th of a leap year
when specified in "mmddHHMM" format. This problem only
affects AIX 5.2. Other releases of AIX are not affected.
Example:
Executing the following command produces an error.
# date 02291111
date: Specified value out of range.
The workaround is to also specify the year, as in:
# date 0229111104
The fix for this problem will be made available in APAR
IY53552. When available, APAR IY53552 can be obtained from
IBM eServer pSeries Support at:
http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/support/pseries/fixes
Prior to the APAR availability, for cases where the
workaround is not adequate, an interim patch is available
from:
ftp://service.software.ibm.com/aix/efixes/iy53552/
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