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From: "Lothan" <lothan AT newsguy DOT com>
To: <ehud AT unix DOT simonwiesel DOT co DOT il>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: date +%Z
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 22:58:59 -0800
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> From: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
> [mailto:cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com]On Behalf Of Ehud Karni
> Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 9:11 AM
> To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> Subject: Re: date +%Z
>
> This is the code in shellutils-src.tar.gz, but it is NOT the current
> GNU code.
>
> > If anyone is interested, could you let the maintainer of the
> date code know
> > about this?  There is probably a GNU maintainer but I don't
> know who it is.
>
> Chris, You have spoken without checking the (GNU) sources first (see my
> code snippet above). This is NOT a GNU problem (even if the 1 line in
> the date check was like the GNU version, there would be no bug). The
> problem is the porting to Cygwin.
>
> I've checked the date.c and strftime.c on shellutils-src.tar.gz (of
> 2000-01-18 from ftp.sunet.se) these sources are from 1997-11-06. So it
> is probably based on based on sh-utils-1.16.tar.gz from 1997-01-27. May
> be a new port of sh-utils is in order (and if you tell me to take it on
> myself, I'm willing but it will take some time).

I just compiled sh-utils-2.0.tar.gz from ftp.gnu.org and it passed all 103
tests. No changes were required.


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