> >>>>> "DRT" == Donald R Tyson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> DRT> At least the 4.0-STABLE side, despite the error reported by
> DRT> several on this list, managed to get the time right.
>
> The error is in the date program's ability to tell you the time X
> hours ago, when that X is during the leap-ahead hour. I consider this
> a bug in date, as my example showed. The time exists, date just can't
> tell you what it is.
This is a bug in the way the date -v option interacts with mktime() -
it doesn't handle a -1 return.
I'll fix this soon (along with some other related problems).
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<http://www.Awfulhak.org> <brian@[uk.]OpenBSD.org>
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