Justin Vallon <vallon(a)mindspring.com&gt; writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org: ... No. I see it too on a Solaris 2.6 machine. It must be a Sun bug. It looks like Suns could be choking somewhat before black Tuesday/Monday. $ uname -a SunOS mule.m17n.org 5.6 Generic_105181-11 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-60 $ TZ=US/Eastern /tmp/bug Death at Mon Jan 18 22:14:07 2038 Afterlife at Mon Jan 18 23:14:08 2038 Curiouser and curiouser though, is this: $ TZ=Japan /tmp/bug Death at Sat Dec 14 05:45:51 1901 Afterlife at Sat Dec 14 05:45:52 1901 Yup. DEC OSF behaves exactly the same way. -- 雨が降っています。