Felix Joussein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Jim, Hi Felix,
Thanks for the report. It would probably have been resolved by now (10 hours later) if you had sent it to the bug-reporting/discussion list rather than just to me. I'm forwarding it there now. > within a project which is related to date/time opeartions I was about to > rebuild system which was originaly based on Ret Hat 7.2 Linux to > Debian/Etch. > The project is almost done when I tried out the following with the date > command from Debian/Etch: > date -s '01/31/2008 14:20:60' -> Invalid date > using the date command from the former Red Hat 7.2 > date -s '01/31/2008 14:20:60' -> Working > > Apperarently the new date command from Debian/Etch which is of the version > /bin/date --version > date (GNU coreutils) 5.97 > Copyright © 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > Dieses Programm ist freie Software. Sie dürfen Kopien davon weitergeben > gemäß > der GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. > Es gibt KEINERLEI GARANTIE, so weit das Gesetz es erlaubt. > > Geschrieben von David MacKenzie. > > has problems to interpret the 60th second, whereas the date command from > Red Hat 7.1, which is of the version > > /usr/local/bin/date --version > date (GNU sh-utils) 2.0 > Written by David MacKenzie. > > Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO > warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. > > does it perfectly. > > Basicaly the goal ist, to set back the time at a certain moment for 1 > Second. It's all about the leap-second which might be set every last > second of the 31th of dec. or 30th of june... > Doing this with the new date command the time is set back to 2 seconds > rather then one... with the old date command using the minute's 60st > second a step-back for one second is possible. > > Do you have any idea how this may happen? > > Regads and thanks for your help, > > -- > mit freundlichen Grüßen > > Felix Joussein > > Integrated Network Design > Firma Felix Joussein > [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
