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Date:      Mon, 25 Oct 1999 09:20:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:      jin@george.lbl.gov
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: bin/14472: date for Y#K
Message-ID:  <199910251620.JAA68775@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR bin/14472; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: jin@george.lbl.gov
To: sheldonh@uunet.co.za
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: bin/14472: date for Y#K
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 09:12:37 -0700 (PDT)

 Thanks, the patch works.
 
 > > # date 199910221913.15
 > > date: illegal time format
 > 
 > The following patch should give you what you want.  Note that you can
 > only specify 4-digit years within the range 1902-2037.
 
 I tried to tracing downto the time2 in /usr/src/lib/libc/stdtime/localtime.c
 but had no clue how it works. That is, I could not find how the 2037 is set.
 Any idea how we can fix this limitation?
 
 Thanks,
 
 	-Jin
 
 > Ciao,
 > Sheldon.
 > 
 > Index: date.c
 > ===================================================================
 


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