tag 160683 moreinfo thanks On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 12:10:48PM -0700, Blars Blarson wrote: > Gnu date apperently siglently limits the timezone offset to 23, so the > above command will SOMETIMES show todays date instead with no error > message. (The SOMETIMES makes this even harder to debug.) This > breaks portable and older shell scripts. (I realize there are better > ways of doing this using Gnu date, but they don't work on solaris or > aix.) Could you be more precise on "SOMETIMES" and maybe include steps to reproduce? Does it only happen for specific dates? Which? Does it depend on the architecture? Which? Helmut
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