X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2010 13:47:48 -0500 From: "cygwin at sipxx.com" Subject: Re: Incorrect year in date function. In-reply-to: To: cygwin@cygwin.com Reply-to: cygwin@sipxx.com Message-id: <4B4237D4.7080600@sipxx.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com The function worked quite correctly. %g is the year of the current ISO week number, that week started in 2009, not 2010. use %y if you want the year of the current date. Jacob Jacobson wrote: > > I am curious as to why this happened. > > I was at work yesterday and created a file. The name of the file > is created using the Cygwin date function. > > REV=$(date +rev-%b-%d-%g) > APPNAME="$1-$REV.img" > > When I did a "ls" this morning, I noticed that the year was wrong > on the file yesterday but is correct today (on a new file created > today using the same script). I have a windows XP machine and the > Cygwin version is quite recent. > > 2010-01-04 11:55 debug-rev-Jan-04-10.img > 2010-01-03 12:34 debug-rev-Jan-03-09.img > > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple