Incorrect year in date function.

Jacob Jacobson news@biyani.org
Mon Jan 4 20:32:00 GMT 2010


Jacob Jacobson wrote:
> 
> I am curious as to why this happened.
> 
> I was at work yesterday and created a file. The name of the file
> is created using the Cygwin date function.
> 
> REV=$(date +rev-%b-%d-%g)
> APPNAME="$1-$REV.img"
> 
> When I did a "ls" this morning, I noticed that the year was wrong
> on the file yesterday but is correct today (on a new file created
> today using the same script). I have a windows XP machine and the
> Cygwin version is quite recent.
> 
> 2010-01-04 11:55 debug-rev-Jan-04-10.img
> 2010-01-03 12:34 debug-rev-Jan-03-09.img
> 
> 

Thanks everyone.


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