1.7.9 : date command fails for year 1900
cygwin
cygwin@overbearing.org
Tue Jan 24 10:00:00 GMT 2012
I want to thank everybody that responded. It looks like you don't think
this is a bug. Given that date seems to work as I expect on SL 6.0, I
would like to make a feature request: "Fix the date command to actually
respond with the date"
Big Props to all you guys that make this software possible and help out
users like me.
-Dave
On 1/24/2012 12:30 AM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
> Keith Christian sent the following at Monday, January 23, 2012 2:00 PM
>>> cygwin sent the following at Sunday, January 22, 2012 3:39 PM
>> On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
>> <BBuchbinder@niaid.nih.gov> wrote:
>>> /c> cal 9 1752
>>> September 1752
>>> Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
>>> 1 2 14 15 16
>>> 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
>>> 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
>>>
>>> Is this a bug?
>> Not a bug, see: http://www.infoplease.com/spot/gregorian1.html.
> Just for the record (and my self-respect), that was a rhetorical
> question. (Or was it sarcastic?)
>
> 9/1752 was the transition only for Great Britain and its
> dependencies. See Wikipedia for other places.
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar#Adoption>
> (I especially like Alaska, which combined a changed calendar with
> a shift of the International Dateline.)
>
> So (rhetorical) questions for the OP would be how to fix
> - date and cal so that they properly take into account changes to
> calendars in different locations.
> - date to account for leap seconds.
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_epoch#Encoding_time_as_a_number>
>
> Also, the OP asked why a signed long integer. See
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time#Representing_the_number>
>
> - Barry
> Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.
>
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