Control: tag -1 moreinfo On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 18:18:01 +0000, Bart Martens wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 05, 2016 at 03:19:59PM +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > > > > On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 11:38:34 +0200, Bart Martens wrote: > > > > > + if [ "`stat --format=%y $cachedir/get-upstream-version.pl`" \< > > > "2016-08-04 09:35" ] > > > > Not sure about using string comparison for comparing dates. And is stat > > --format=%y's output stable across locales etc? > > Yes, see function human_time in src/stat.c in coreutils. > The current code is not a guarantee for the future. The function is named "human_time". That makes it IMO wrong to use in a script. It's also not stable across timezones. Cheers, Julien
