On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 09:32, George Georgalis wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 11:36:36PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: > >On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:59:47PM -0500, Stan Heckman wrote: > >> On my system, date -d returns "invalid date" for dates before 1970. It > >> is possible that this began when I upgraded libc6. Any suggestions? > > > >1970-01-01 is time zero for *nixen. You're asking about what happened > >before the big bang! Guess "date" is not as generally useful for > >reformatting dates as it could be. However, its primary function is to > >set/print the current date/time which is always more recent than 1970. > > Guess again. It works fine here... debian 3.0r1 > $ date -d "1/15/1905" > Sun Jan 15 00:00:00 EST 1905 > $ date -d "1/15/1905" +%s > -2049994800 > > Wouldn't surprise me if I couldn't set my clock to negative Unix time > though. > > <my guess> try "export LC_TIME=C" or better yet "export LC_ALL=C" man > locale for details. </my guess>
$ date -d "1/15/1905" date: invalid date `1/15/1905' $ LC_TIME=C date -d "1/15/1905" date: invalid date `1/15/1905' $ LC_ALL=C date -d "1/15/1905" date: invalid date `1/15/1905' -- +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | | | | "Fear the Penguin!!" | +---------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
