From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 10 14:06:51 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA14974 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 14:06:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from awfulhak.demon.co.uk (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA14965 for ; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 14:06:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from awfulhak.org (dev.lan.awfulhak.org [10.0.1.5]) by awfulhak.demon.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA02397; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 21:49:31 +0100 (BST) Received: from dev.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.org (8.8.7/8.8.6) with ESMTP id VAA21847; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 21:49:30 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <199708102049.VAA21847@awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Tim Vanderhoek cc: Greg Lehey , Brian Somers , FreeBSD Hackers Subject: Re: date(1) In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 01 Aug 1997 00:21:33 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 21:49:30 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Of course, in the interest of script-portability, we should not > extend date(1) at all. Anyone trying to enter the century should > get an error. This is the whole purpose of Posix, to increase > portability. By creating extensions to it, we defeat the whole > purpose just for the sake of creating a better operating system. Well, I've done the other changes (they only take effect if you use the new flags). Is the general concensus that we should leave out the century ? It's no loss if we leave it out as allowable dates are between 1980 & early 2038.... until a time_t gets bigger in which case the 2038 bits in localtime.c will have to be fixed. > -- > Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! > tIM...HOEk > -- Brian , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....