RE: Unexpected behaviour in date; calculates daylight savings tim e in correctly...

[Karl Zaryski]

Thank you!  That fixed the problem (output shown below).

Is there anywhere on the GNU web site where I might have been able to find
the 2.0.11 version on my own?  2.0 is the latest version on ftp.gnu.org in
/gnu/sh-utils/.  I'd have expected to find info on known bugs, change lists,
links to alpha versions, etc. at
http://www.gnu.org/software/shellutils/shellutils.html or somewhere not too
far away from there, but after a total of half an hour spent searching
around the GNU site I still haven't been able to find any such information.
It's unfortunate that I had to annoy a live human to get this info.  *sigh*

Thanks again!

Output:

address@hidden sh-utils-2.0.11]$ uname -a
Linux grp01ykf.blackberry.net 2.4.5 #2 SMP Sun Jun 3 03:22:05 EDT 2001 i686
unknown
address@hidden sh-utils-2.0.11]$ pwd
/tmp/sh-utils-2.0.11
address@hidden sh-utils-2.0.11]$ src/date --version
date (GNU sh-utils) 2.0.11
Written by David MacKenzie.

Copyright (C) 2000 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
address@hidden sh-utils-2.0.11]$ src/date ; src/date -d '01/01/1970 utc
'`src/date -u +%s`' secs'
Sun Jun  3 14:18:17 EDT 2001
Sun Jun  3 14:18:17 EDT 2001
address@hidden sh-utils-2.0.11]$ src/date ; src/date -d '01/01/1970 utc
'`src/date +%s`' secs'
Sun Jun  3 14:18:24 EDT 2001
Sun Jun  3 14:18:24 EDT 2001

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Proulx [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Sunday, June 03, 2001 2:15 PM
To: Karl Zaryski
Cc: Jim Meyering; address@hidden
Subject: RE: Unexpected behaviour in date; calculates daylight savings
tim e in correctly...


> So, putting in the -u flag didn't help.  I tried testing several systems
[...]
> bash-2.03# src/date --version
> date (GNU sh-utils) 2.0

In all cases I saw the version was 2.0.  If possible you should try
the newer 2.0.11.  I believe there have been some fixes since 2.0
which might improve your behavior.

The latest test release is available at:

  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/sh-utils-2.0.11.tar.gz
  ftp://freefriends.org/gnu/fetish/sh-utils-2.0.11.tar.gz

Hope that helps

Bob