X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:20:02 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: 1.7.9 : date command fails for year 1900 Message-ID: <20120124102002.GM2456@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <0105D5C1E0353146B1B222348B0411A20A51A74206 AT NIHMLBX02 DOT nih DOT gov> <4F1E812E DOT 7060603 AT overbearing DOT org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4F1E812E.7060603@overbearing.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Jan 24 11:00, cygwin wrote: > I want to thank everybody that responded. It looks like you don't > think this is a bug. Given that date seems to work as I expect on SL > 6.0, I would like to make a feature request: "Fix the date command > to actually respond with the date" It's not date's problem. The reason is that time_t is defined as 32 bit type for historical reasons. We would have to redefine time_t to 64 bit and change all time_t releated libc entry points in Cygwin to get this working, but this is not a simple task. And it only affects executables which are recompiled under the new settings. But maybe it's really time to do it for Cygwin 1.7.11... Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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