Re: invalid date from date -d 1969-12-31
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 10:32:45AM -0500, George Georgalis wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 11:36:36PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote:
> >On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:59:47PM -0500, Stan Heckman wrote:
> >> On my system, date -d returns "invalid date" for dates before 1970. It
> >> is possible that this began when I upgraded libc6. Any suggestions?
> >
> >1970-01-01 is time zero for *nixen. You're asking about what happened
> >before the big bang! Guess "date" is not as generally useful for
> >reformatting dates as it could be. However, its primary function is to
> >set/print the current date/time which is always more recent than 1970.
>
> Guess again. It works fine here... debian 3.0r1
> $ date -d "1/15/1905"
> Sun Jan 15 00:00:00 EST 1905
> $ date -d "1/15/1905" +%s
> -2049994800
$ export LANG="C"
$ date -d "1/15/1905"
date: invalid date `1/15/1905'
Mmm, I guess it's a bug in sid's date...
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