Andreas Schwab wrote: > This will fail during the day after a DST transition.
Which points out a terrible bug in my suggestion of how to map the range of 0-(N-1) to the range of 1-N! Bob wrote this buggy code: >> case $secondssincedaystart in (0) secondssincedaystart=86400 ;; esac That will obviously fail miserably at midnight on the day after a dst change. Another reason not to do it! Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils