Looks like a bug in 'ps' to me.  ps -f gives Dec 31 for me, too.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Donna Garverick" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2001 2:27 PM
Subject: [HP3000-L] shell weirdness?


> 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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