OSF-AXP CLOCK_DUNIX1032D 1032D Digital UNIX clock V2.0 - 3.2D ECO Summary

 
Copyright (c) Digital Equipment Corporation 1996.
All rights reserved.

PRODUCT:    Digital UNIX, Version 2.0 through 3.2D

SOURCE:     Digital Equipment Corporation

ECO INFORMATION:

     ECO Kit Name:  CLOCK_DUNIX1032D
     ECO Kits Superseded by This ECO Kit:  None
     ECO Kit Approximate Size:  CLOCK_DUNIX1032D.tar 55280 Blocks

	System Reboot Necessary:  See README file installation instructions

ECO KIT SUMMARY:

An ECO kit exists for Digital UNIX V2.0 - 3.2D.  This kit addresses the 
following problems: 

 1) The 'date' command rejects February 29, 1996 (or any other leap
    year) as a valid date.

 2) When the system time is changed with the 'date' to any date in March
    of a leap year and then rebooted, the system clock will lose 
    one day. 


INSTALLATION NOTES:

Copy the appropriate version of clock.o into /sys/BINARY after saving
the original and rebuild the kernel.  This will correct the problem 
where a day is lost when the time is adjusted and the system rebooted
during the month of March of a leap year.  

Important note--- The rebuilt kernel must be up and running before 
any checks are made to see if the patch has been properly incorporated.  
If the time is adjusted prior to rebooting with the new kernel the 
loss of a day upon the first reboot is expected.

Copy the appropriate 'date' image to /sbin/date.  This copy of 'date' 
is a replacement for the version found in the following patches:
OSF300-234, OSF305-234, OSF-320-214 and OSF325-320191.  The library
corrections from these patches should still be installed as they correct
the behavior of the 'date' command which uses the shared version of the
libc routine 'strptime'.  For V2.0/V2.1 and V2.0b systems OSFV20-236-22
should be installed.

Version V3.2c and V3.2d already incorporate the change to 'strptime'.
Only the correction to clock.o is necessary for these versions.

clock_dunix1032d.README
clock_dunix1032d.CHKSUM
clock_dunix1032d.CVRLET_TXT
clock_dunix1032d.tar