On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Gopi Garge wrote:
->Hi,
->
-> I use gnu tar 1.11.8 (the latest) on my solaris box and do
-> incremental backups using the --after-date option. tar
-> breaks since Jan 1 2000 giving an "Invalid date format"
-> error.
->
-> I looked through the sources and found the following in
-> lib/getdate.c
->
-> if (Year < EPOCH || Year > 1999
-> || Month < 1 || Month > 12
-> /* Lint fluff: "conversion from long may lose accuracy" */
-> || Day < 1 || Day > DaysInMonth[(int)--Month])
-> return -1;
->
-> Comments/fixes welcome.
->
Did you check at the www.gnu.org? Possibly you may have to upgrade your
solaris version. BTW we are not a solaris list.
Nagarjuna
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