hi all!

ok....so i'm happily sitting here writing yet another script
(yas) and one of the programmers (who knows about the
shell....hmmm, maybe if i kill(1) this person my problem
would go away? :-) comes running up to me...abducts my
keyboard (hey give that back) and does a 'ps -ef|grep
MGR.{account}'  inside the shell.  (you know...the geek
version of a showjob :-)

if we're reading the display correctly, the shell(?) is
getting some sort of weird date from...gee, mars maybe?
here's a snippet along with the output from showclks:

:showclks.pubxl.telesup
SHOWCLKS/XL  A.10.00
DEBUG/iX C.16.01

HPDEBUG Intrinsic at: 1e58.00007258 PROGRAM+$198
PRIV=$3 := $0


*************************************************************

  ***
***
  ***   Greenwich Mean Time : THU, DEC 13, 2001,  7:14 PM
***
  ***   GMT/MPE offset      : -8:00:00
***
  ***   MPE System Time     : THU, DEC 13, 2001, 11:14 AM
***
  ***
***

*************************************************************

                 **** C Library Information ****

        Current value of Time Zone(TZ) variable : PST8PDT
        CTIME function return :  Thu Dec 13 11:14:35 2001


:sh
CWD is "/SYS/PUB".


/SYS/PUB: ps -ef |grep .SYS
                0          1          0  0   Dec 31
0:23 PROGEN.PUB.SYS

                0      65538          1  0   Dec 31
0:39 LOAD.PUB.SYS
                0    1900574     525290  0   Dec 31 ldev152
0:00 VTSERVER.NET.SYS info=
                0    1703967      65721  0   Dec 31 ldev818
0:00 JSMAIN.PUB.SYS
<<snip>>

fwiw, i've tried this on two systems and they're both
displaying 'dec 31'.  any thoughts?  can anyone replicate
this?  is 'dec 31' not really today's(??) date but something
else?    - d

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