Re: Bug in date?

[Eric Blake]

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According to Enrique Arizón Benito on 9/9/2008 4:45 AM:
> ||# ||date -s "1970-01-01 00:00:01"
> 
> doesn't work.

Thanks for the report.  In which way does it not work?  What error
message, if any, is printed?  What did you expect to happen, when compared
to what actually happened?

> 
> In general any hour value amongst 01-23 works. 00 fails!
> 
> ||Is that the expected behaviour?

It's hard to say without more details.  Perhaps your timezone is a factor,
where all times 01:00:00 and above normalize to a positive number of
seconds since the epoch, but where 00:00:01 normalizes to a time less than
zero given your current timezone, and your system rejects attempt to set
time to a negative value?

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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