for a good time, set your clock to 2^32+1 seconds since the epoch

[Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn]

I set my system clock to 2^32+1 seconds since the epoch. Pretty soon I had files with timestamps which were so large that when I ls'ed them, ls crashed.

I managed to touch them back into the present, except for these two:

 nooxie:~/.tahoe-testgrid$ time sudo updatedb
Password:
/usr/bin/find: /system/contract/process/128084: Value too large for defined data type
/usr/bin/find: /system/contract/all/128084: Value too large for defined data type

real 7m39.507s
user 0m10.394s
sys 0m17.228s
 nooxie:~/.tahoe-testgrid$

Also along the way svc.configd died, for unknown to my reasons. A nice person named dtbartle on IRC helped me restart it and now everything is fine.

[Tim Spriggs (tim-tajinc)]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem