Gregory's Serverok now i'm curious. i'm opening up the program in ghidra, and it turns out there's a check for the future and the past?? and there's debug symbols too, so that's nice... i'll try to clean up the decompilation of validate_system_time and show what it does
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 so if it makes anyone feel better i just got the actual real code to print out the message. i had to nop out everything before the time validation function so it would run (the sunpci hardware isn't emulated on qemu), but indeed this program does check the date and exit if it's too far in the future @nil what point in time does Solaris consider to be too far into the future?
 @nil I think I ran into the past check back in the day, because the system came up with epoch as boot time, or something like that. |
the majority of this function is just parsing a hardcoded string ("Mar 1 2004") to convert it to year, month, and date integers. this isn't the future limit date, btw. the program also checks if the date is too far in the *past*. looks like the hardcoded last allowed time you can run this program is midnight on December 31, 2009