Something strange with "date +%s" and timezones

I am in MST (US Mountain Time). My shell is csh. Observe: % date --ver date (GNU coreutils) 6.10 Copyright (C) 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. The

[PATCH]: chmod, chown, chgrp: Reduce verbosity of silent mode

Hello, I got recently got one complaint ( no rhbz number at the moment :( ) about too verbose silent mode since using fts for directory traversal in chmod/chown/chgrp. I guess those error messages should be suppressed in silent mode. Attached patch is doing that (making those error messages conditi

Re: [PATCH] pwd: add pwd -P, -L to TODO

James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * TODO: Add to-do entry for -P and -L options of pwd. Thanks. Applied (modulo trailing blanks) and pushed. ___ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreut

[PATCH] pwd: add pwd -P, -L to TODO

* TODO: Add to-do entry for -P and -L options of pwd. --- TODO |5 + 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index f38c0b6..0dbb85f 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -36,6 +36,11 @@ printf: platforms where the native *printf(3) is deficient. Suggestio

Re: Multi-threading in sort(or core-utils)

On 16th June 2008, Paul Eggert wrote: > > Pádraig Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> 5. I think it would be nice for dd to support reading portions of >> a file efficiently. As far as I can see it can only do it by reading >> 1 byte at a time. Perhaps skip_bytes=x and count_bytes=x would >> b