X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI,SPF_HELO_PASS,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4C73C7C1.4080107@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:23:13 -0600 From: Eric Blake User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100806 Fedora/3.1.2-1.fc13 Mnenhy/0.8.3 Thunderbird/3.1.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: `TZ=Pacific/Kwajalein date -d 1993-08-20` doesn't fail References: <29135f40.8bed.12a97c158ac.Coremail.lijpbasin@126.com> <20100823010955.22506.qmail@kosh.dhis.org> <4C729B63.4000405@cs.ucla.edu> <7856072A9D04C24B82DFE2B1112FE38A0177ADD66E@MCHP058A.global-ad.net> <4C737CEC.1000705@cs.ucla.edu> <7856072A9D04C24B82DFE2B1112FE38A0177ADD737@MCHP058A.global-ad.net> In-Reply-To: <7856072A9D04C24B82DFE2B1112FE38A0177ADD737@MCHP058A.global-ad.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=GB2312 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 On 08/24/2010 03:06 AM, Voelker, Bernhard wrote: > $ TZ=Pacific/Kwajalein date -d 1993-08-20 > date: invalid date `1993-08-20' > > but it doesn't fail on my Cygwin installation (see below). > Is there a porting/packaging issue? Most likely it is either a difference in the tzdata package, or a bug in the newlib implementation of mktime(3); very unlikely to be a bug in the porting of coreutils. But you'd have to step through it in a debugger to find out for sure. -- Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org -- 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