>Number:         8590
>Category:       y2k
>Synopsis:       y2k crashes X
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    y2k-manager (NetBSD Year 2000 bug manager)
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Oct  9 10:06:00 1999
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Yanek Martinson
>Organization:
IFX Corp
>Release:        1.4
>Environment:
NetBSD yanix 1.4 NetBSD 1.4 (YANIX) #10: Thu Jul 22 17:53:01 PDT 1999     root@yanix:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/YANIX i386


>Description:

Changing system date (using 'date' command) from within an
xterm crashes the entire X server.

This is has also been reproduced on Solaris, Linux and 
Digital Unix (Alpha) so is not specific to NetBSD not even
to Xfree.
>How-To-Repeat:

in an xterm, change system date past 2000
>Fix:


>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: