On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 03:14:10PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 09:32, George Georgalis wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 11:36:36PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: >> >On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:59:47PM -0500, Stan Heckman wrote: >> >> On my system, date -d returns "invalid date" for dates before 1970. It >> >> is possible that this began when I upgraded libc6. Any suggestions? >> > >> >1970-01-01 is time zero for *nixen. You're asking about what happened >> >before the big bang! Guess "date" is not as generally useful for >> >reformatting dates as it could be. However, its primary function is to >> >set/print the current date/time which is always more recent than 1970. >> >> Guess again. It works fine here... debian 3.0r1 >> $ date -d "1/15/1905" >> Sun Jan 15 00:00:00 EST 1905 >> $ date -d "1/15/1905" +%s >> -2049994800 >> >> Wouldn't surprise me if I couldn't set my clock to negative Unix time >> though. >> >> <my guess> try "export LC_TIME=C" or better yet "export LC_ALL=C" man >> locale for details. </my guess> > >$ date -d "1/15/1905" >date: invalid date `1/15/1905' > >$ LC_TIME=C date -d "1/15/1905" >date: invalid date `1/15/1905' > >$ LC_ALL=C date -d "1/15/1905" >date: invalid date `1/15/1905'
Well that's not it then... and i'm stretched to thin trying to share posts on two lists. I was hoping someone would just be familiar with the problem and the fix. The consensus is, check your version. This one works: $ date --version date (GNU sh-utils) 2.0.11 Written by David MacKenzie. but maybe it's the kernel that's been fixed, I know there has been some clock work (duh) but I don't even remember what it was about or when (like I said duuuh). in any event I'm getting pre 1970 dates with kernel 2.4.20. // George -- GEORGE GEORGALIS, System Admin/Architect cell: 347-451-8229 Security Services, Web, Mail, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Multimedia, DB, DNS and Metrics. http://www.galis.org/george -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
