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From: John Wiersba <John DOT Wiersba AT medstat DOT com>
To: "'Sean Phelan'" <sphelan AT sqcn DOT com>, cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: RE: Touch has a bug w/Daylight Savings time in the US
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 18:16:51 -0400
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Both work properly on my machine, but maybe it's because I'm running the
3/16 snapshot.

-- John Wiersba

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sean Phelan [mailto:sphelan AT sqcn DOT com]
> Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 6:22 PM
> To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
> Subject: Touch has a bug w/Daylight Savings time in the US
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> In case I'm the first one to discover this, there's a problem 
> with Cygwin's
> TOUCH. It doesn't handle the daylight-savings crossover properly.
> 
> --------------------
> Once the Daylight-Savings is crossed (ex:4/1/99), touch 
> improperly sets the
> file date if the date is before this crossover date.
> EX: "touch 0401120900 file.ext" will set the date to 1:09p 
> instead of 12:09p
> BUT: "touch 0403120900 file.ext" will set the date to 12:09p 
> as expected.
> Naturally, this is a bug which could bite someone.
> --------------------
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Sean
> 
> 
> 
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