Re: date command

2008-02-01 Thread Jim Meyering
Felix Joussein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Jim, Hi Felix, Thanks for the report. It would probably have been resolved by now (10 hours later) if you had sent it to the bug-reporting/discussion list rather than just to me. I'm forwarding it there now. > within a project which is related t

Re: date command

2008-02-01 Thread James Youngman
On Feb 1, 2008 8:24 AM, Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Basicaly the goal ist, to set back the time at a certain moment for 1 > > Second. It's all about the leap-second which might be set every last > > second of the 31th of dec. or 30th of june... > > Doing this with the new date comm

Re: Need help understanding sort tests

2008-02-01 Thread Andreas Schwab
Andy Jewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here are the commands, and the expected output. (The tests are 10f and > 10g). > > > sort -t : -k 1.3,1.3 > :ba > :ab > > > sort -k 1.4,1.4 > b ba > a ab > > > In both of these cases it seems that the explicit -k matches an empty > string, The ranges endp

Re: date command

2008-02-01 Thread Felix Joussein
Hello James, thank you for your brief answer. Basically I am aware of what you said, but as I am operating an NTP Server which get it's timescale directly from an ATOM clock via the serial interface, which makes it to a STRATUM 1 server, I have to set the leap second manually by date command or si

Re: date command

2008-02-01 Thread Philip Rowlands
On Fri, 1 Feb 2008, Felix Joussein wrote: Basically I am aware of what you said, but as I am operating an NTP Server which get it's timescale directly from an ATOM clock via the serial interface, which makes it to a STRATUM 1 server, I have to set the leap second manually by date command or simi

Need help understanding sort tests

2008-02-01 Thread Andy Jewell
In the test suite for sort (coreutils 6.9), there are two tests that seem to be testing for incorrect behavior. I'm hoping someone will help me understand why the behavior in the test is correct. Here are the commands, and the expected output. (The tests are 10f and 10g). sort -t : -k

Re: Need help understanding sort tests

2008-02-01 Thread Andy Jewell
Yes, I know that the range endpoints are inclusive. In the first example, the first field is empty, and so the inclusive character range 3-3 is also empty In the second example, the first field is length one, and so the inclusive character range 4-4 is empty adj On Feb 1, 2008, at 9:33 AM,

Re: sort: memory exhausted with 50GB file

2008-02-01 Thread Leo Butler
On Sun, 27 Jan 2008, Paul Eggert wrote: < Leo Butler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: < < > wc is counting with long ints, and the first line of this 50GB file is a string < > of \0 whose length appears to be negative when counted with long ints. (Details < > below). < > < > I believe that this

[PATCH] mkdir/split: send --verbose output to stdout

2008-02-01 Thread Steven Schubiger
FWIW, "make distcheck" still fails... Steven Schubiger diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index 62c7930..459aa46 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,13 @@ +2008-02-01 Steven Schubiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + + * src/mkdir.c: Send --verbose output to stdout. + * src/split

Re: [PATCH] Add svg to the dircolors list

2008-02-01 Thread Matthew Woehlke
Mike Frysinger wrote: Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- src/dircolors.hin |1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/dircolors.hin b/src/dircolors.hin index 3c171f9..14ba451 100644 --- a/src/dircolors.hin +++ b/src/dircolors.hin @@ -138,6 +13

Re: date command

2008-02-01 Thread Paul Eggert
Felix Joussein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Basicaly the goal ist, to set back the time at a certain moment for 1 Second. It's all about the leap-second which might be set every last second of the 31th of dec. or 30th of june... But the stated time stamp (01/31/2008 14:20:60) is not