Bug#179139: libc6: invalid date from date -d 1969-12-31

[Jeff Bailey <jbailey@nisa.net>]

On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 09:59:54PM -0500, Stan Heckman wrote:

> $ date --version | head -3; date -d 1969-12-31
> date (coreutils) 4.5.2
> Written by David MacKenzie.

> date: invalid date `1969-12-31'

> I expected output something like like "Wed Dec 31 00:00:00 EST 1969",
> not "invalid date".

> All dates before 1970-01-01 that I have tried seem to produce "invalid
> date"; all dates after 1970-01-01 that I have tried produce the output
> I expect.

I suspect that you'll find that all dates before 1970 fail and that all
dates after Mon Jan 19 04:14:07 2038 (GMT) also fail.

Why are you reporting this as a bug against glibc?  That's how time_t
works.  Search google for "time_t" and "epoch" for more information.

Closing this bug.

Tks,
Jeff Bailey