Re: date --date "4:59:54 1 hour 53 min 46 sec ago"

[Bauke Jan Douma]

Tom Rodman wrote on 01/28/2009 04:35 PM:
> Not sure if this is cygwin specific, but it seems like a problem
> in gnu date:
>
>   ~ $ date;uname -a; cygcheck -c cygwin
>   Wed Jan 28 09:30:54 CST 2009
>   CYGWIN_NT-5.1 neon 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) 2008-06-12 19:34 i686 Cygwin
>   Cygwin Package Information
>   Package              Version        Status
>   cygwin               1.5.25-15      OK
>   ~ $ cygcheck -f /usr/bin/date
>   coreutils-6.10-2
>   ~ $ date --date "4:59:54 1 hour 53 min 46 sec ago"
>   Wed Jan 28 06:52:08 CST 2009

Seems like the 1 hour is added, the 53 minutes is added, and
then the 46 seconds is ... subtracted.

bjd