> 	Recently while doing some routine maintenance on
> Windows, I accidentally advanced the date by one month.
> When I discovered the error, I set it back again.  Only at
> that point, FMS quit working (along with other features on
> other apps such as the history updater in Firefox, and who
> knows what else?) When I'd start FMS it would run for
> about 5 seconds, then quit.  One of the logs said
> something like "System Time going backwards, FMS shutting
> down".  Right now, I have to run my machine with the date
> one month in advance and it's throwing a bit of a wrench
> in the network here, because all my created files are
> dated April instead of March.  I tried everything I could
> think of, reinstalling FMS several times, but it wouldn't work.
> It there any way to fix this problem, has anyone ever
> heard of this?  Windows triumphs again.

Just several days ago, I encountered this same problem with the same
message, except that I inadvertantly set the calendar back two months,
instead of ahead. The result was the same: whenever I tried to start FMS, it
spontaneously shut down. (There seemed to be a delay of 4 or 5 seconds, but
the log file indicated that the shutdown was immediate. Perhaps the apparent
delay was related to the refresh interval for the OS Services panel.)

Before I discovered the message in the Server.log file, I tried rebooting,
which didn't help, and reinstalling FMS, which didn't help. Once I found the
message in the log file, I realized that the calendar had the worng  date,
and I corrected the problem by setting the calendar back to the correct
date; now it's working well again.

Even when removing FMS, erasing all files and directories, and them
reloading FMS, it seemed to retain some sort of tribal memory of the
previous installation, possibility through register entries that were not
removed. I don't really know why it behaves as it does, but it may be some
sort of check against attempts to circumvent license restrictions.

BTW, I am unaware of any other apps that may have been affeccted by the
change in the calendar, although there certainly may have been some. I
expect that the issue is not in the operating system but rather in the
individual apps.

Mark Altenbernd
Mark-aNKXyE75mqdpLGFMi4vTTA@public.gmane.org




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