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Subject: Re: Incorrect year in date function.
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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
>
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