X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4F1A07F6.8010509@overbearing.org> Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2012 01:33:58 +0100 From: cygwin User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111222 Thunderbird/9.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: 1.7.9 : date command fails for year 1900 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Hi All, I'm seeing a problem with my setup where the date command fails in an odd way: this is what it does: $ date -d '1 January 1900' date: invalid date `1 January 1900' same thing on a linux box: $ date -d '1 January 1900' Mon Jan 1 00:00:00 PMT 1900 any dates after 1901 seem to work OK: $ date -d '1 January 1902' Wed Jan 1 00:00:00 PMT 1902 but nothing works before then: $ date -d 'today - 150 years' date: invalid date `today - 150 years' $ date -d 'today - 100 years' Sun Jan 21 01:33:27 WET 1912 this is the info for the date command: $ date --version date (GNU coreutils) 8.14 Packaged by Cygwin (8.14-1) Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later . This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Written by David MacKenzie. Where should I start debugging? Thanks in advance, Dave -- 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