Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 18:09:21 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: dufus.[...] daily run output -- summer time Message-ID: <200004031709.SAA05528@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com> of "Mon, 03 Apr 2000 11:31:58 EDT." <14568.47470.412562.32287@kci.kciLink.com>
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> >>>>> "DRT" == Donald R Tyson <tyson@stanfordalumni.org> writes:
>
> DRT> At least the 4.0-STABLE side, despite the error reported by
> DRT> several on this list, managed to get the time right.
>
> The error is in the date program's ability to tell you the time X
> hours ago, when that X is during the leap-ahead hour. I consider this
> a bug in date, as my example showed. The time exists, date just can't
> tell you what it is.
This is a bug in the way the date -v option interacts with mktime() -
it doesn't handle a -1 return.
I'll fix this soon (along with some other related problems).
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Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org> <brian@[uk.]FreeBSD.org>
<http://www.Awfulhak.org>; <brian@[uk.]OpenBSD.org>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour !
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