Re: invalid date from date -d 1969-12-31
----- Forwarded message from "John H. Robinson, IV" -----
Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 22:50:38 -0800
From: "John H. Robinson, IV"
Subject: Re: invalid date from date -d 1969-12-31
To: kplug-list@kernel-panic.org
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George Georgalis wrote:
>
> $ date --version
> date (GNU sh-utils) 2.0.11
> Written by David MacKenzie.
>
> but maybe it's the kernel that's been fixed, I know there has been some
> clock work (duh) but I don't even remember what it was about or when
> (like I said duuuh). in any event I'm getting pre 1970 dates with kernel
> 2.4.20.
it is the libc.
bin/bash-2.05b# ls -l /lib/libc.so.6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Jan 29 06:35 /lib/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.3.1.so
bin/bash-2.05b# /tmp/date --version | head -3;/tmp/date -d 1905-04-03
date (GNU sh-utils) 2.0.11
Written by David MacKenzie.
/tmp/date: invalid date `1905-04-03'
[jaqque@athena:~]% ls -l /lib/libc.so.6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Oct 5 12:02 /lib/libc.so.6 -> libc-2.2.5.so
[jaqque@athena:~]% date --version | head -3 ; date -d 1905-04-03
date (GNU sh-utils) 2.0.11
Written by David MacKenzie.
Mon Apr 3 00:00:00 PST 1905
-john
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