On Friday 11 December 2009, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Friday 11 December 2009, Frans Pop wrote:
> > And that looks to be the issue described in this bug report:
> > http://bugs.debian.org/502336
>
> I've just done some debugging in rdate of this problem, and it looks to
> be a calculation bug in rdate (either due to incorrect handling of
> overflow or maybe endianness). See the BR linked above for details.
So, if the problem is simply that rdate fails when the current system time
is before the epoch (1-1-1970), how about we include a trivial command to
set the date to the epoch before calling rdate as a workaround until rdate
gets fixed.
The attached code does the job.
/*
* Copyright (c) 2009 Frans Pop <f...@debian.org>
* Licence: GPL version 2 or later
*/
/*
* set-date-epoch.c: Set the system date to the epoch
*/
#include <sys/time.h>
#include <err.h>
#include <time.h>
int
main(int argc, char **argv)
{
struct timeval new;
new.tv_sec = 0;
new.tv_usec = 0;
if (settimeofday(&new, NULL) == -1)
err(1, "Could not set time of day");
return 0;
}
