Tom Rodman wrote on 01/28/2009 04:35 PM:
Not sure if this is cygwin specific, but it seems like a problem
in gnu date:
~ $ date;uname -a; cygcheck -c cygwin
Wed Jan 28 09:30:54 CST 2009
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 neon 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) 2008-06-12 19:34 i686 Cygwin
Cygwin Package Information
Package Version Status
cygwin 1.5.25-15 OK
~ $ cygcheck -f /usr/bin/date
coreutils-6.10-2
~ $ date --date "4:59:54 1 hour 53 min 46 sec ago"
Wed Jan 28 06:52:08 CST 2009
Seems like the 1 hour is added, the 53 minutes is added, and
then the 46 seconds is ... subtracted.
bjd
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