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date bug


From: David Cermak
Subject: date bug
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:16:13 +0200
User-agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20060724)

Hello,
as i really can't believe that it looks like a bug:

address@hidden:~$ date -d "01/01/1830" +"%s"
date: invalid date `01/01/1830'

that's ok, but >

address@hidden:~$ date -d "01/01/1902" +"%s"
-2145920400
address@hidden:~$ date -d "01/01/1901" +"%s"
-2147483648
address@hidden:~$ date -d "01/01/1900" +"%s"
-2147483648

address@hidden:~$ date -d "01/01/1900"
Fri Dec 13 21:45:52 CET 1901
address@hidden:~$ date -d "01/01/1902"
Wed Jan  1 00:00:00 CET 1902
address@hidden:~$ date -d "01/01/1901"
Fri Dec 13 21:45:52 CET 1901

date should report "invalid date" much sooner ...

thank you for things you do :)

david

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