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and subject line Bug#404965: fixed in at 3.1.12-1
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regarding Relative dates fail at year end
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Package: at
Version: 3.1.10
Severity: important
I schedule jobs in shell scripts using a syntax like :
at 3:30 tomorrow < ThisScript.sh >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
I noticed that jobs had not been run after 31/12/2007. Doing an 'at -l'
to list the jobs showed that all the jobs had been scheduled for 1 Jan
2009, rather than 1 Jan 2008.
Essentially, running 'at 3:30 tomorrow' (or similar, eg 'at 3:30 next
week') at the end of the year causes an extra year to be added to the
date. It wasn't until today (the 3rd that I've noticed that this was the
case - it could have been a problem for some time otherwise).
Examination of the source in parsetime.y, replacing the :
currtime = time(NULL);
with :
currtime = 1199071800; /* 31st Dec 2007 3:30am */
and removing the 'panic("refusing to create job destined in the past");'
check allowed me to play with the code in order to see the problem.
For example, this works fine :
buttercup:/home/justin/Root/AT/at-3.1.10# ./at -v 4pm
Mon Dec 31 16:00:00 2007
at>
However, this fails badly :
buttercup:/home/justin/Root/AT/at-3.1.10# ./at -v 4pm tomorrow
Thu Jan 1 16:00:00 2009
at>
Looking at the code, there is a check for a year having been specified.
If this is NOT set, and the date given is in the past, the year is
incremented :
else if (!yearspec) {
if ((exectm.tm_mon < currtm.tm_mon) ||
((exectm.tm_mon == currtm.tm_mon &&
exectm.tm_mday < currtm.tm_mday)))
exectm.tm_year++;
}
I /think/ that this yearspec variable should have been set when a
relative date is used. This is, however, just my interpretation of the
problem and it might be far more subtle than that.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-5-486
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages at depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13etch2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libpam0g 0.79-4 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii lsb-base 3.1-23.2etch1 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip
ii postfix [mail-transpor 2.3.8-2+b1 A high-performance mail transport
at recommends no packages.
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Source: at
Source-Version: 3.1.12-1
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
at, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:
at_3.1.12-1.diff.gz
to main/a/at/at_3.1.12-1.diff.gz
at_3.1.12-1.dsc
to main/a/at/at_3.1.12-1.dsc
at_3.1.12-1_amd64.deb
to main/a/at/at_3.1.12-1_amd64.deb
at_3.1.12.orig.tar.gz
to main/a/at/at_3.1.12.orig.tar.gz
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
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pp.
Ansgar Burchardt <[email protected]> (supplier of updated at package)
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Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:03:34 +0900
Source: at
Binary: at
Architecture: source amd64
Version: 3.1.12-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Ansgar Burchardt <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Ansgar Burchardt <[email protected]>
Description:
at - Delayed job execution and batch processing
Closes: 86662 208367 316442 335374 359010 372671 386665 404965 406359 453707
506829
Changes:
at (3.1.12-1) unstable; urgency=low
.
* New upstream release:
+ do not increment year twice (Closes: #404965) (LP: #312051)
+ do not increment day of month twice (Closes: #386665)
+ update documentation on removed environment variables
(Closes: #335374)
+ add -f option to stay in foreground (Closes: #208367) - thanks to
Marcela Maslanova <[email protected]>
+ error when day of month is 0 (Closes: #372671)
+ make less assumptations on open file descriptors (Closes: #453707)
+ add status action to init script (Closes: #506829)
+ make stdout, stderr available to sendmail process (Closes: #316442)
+ document -b option (LP: #156493)
+ document 4-digit years and ISO date format (Closes: #359010)
+ add test suite for date/time parser (Closes: #86662)
- add build-dep on perl (>= 5.10.1) for Test::More 0.92
* use dh_installinit (Closes: #406359)
* remove support for upgrading from pre-3.1.9
* remove rc, pam (moved upstream)
* remove Cyril Brulebois from Uploaders as requested on IRC
* now depends on lsb-base (>= 3.2-14) for status_of_proc in init script
* add dependency on libpam-runtime (>= 1.0.1-11) for
common-session-noninteractive
* update debian/copyright
* bump Standards-Version to 3.8.3 (no changes)
* debian/control: Add DM-Upload-Allowed: yes.
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