Re: date overflow in year 2038

2009-02-14 Thread Dr. David Alan Gilbert
* Eric Blake (e...@byu.net) wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > According to David M. Dowdle on 2/13/2009 8:45 PM: > > clouded:~> date -d "Fri Jan 19 03:14:08 UTC 2038" +%s > > date: invalid date `Fri Jan 19 03:14:08 UTC 2038' > > clouded:~> > > > > 03:14:07 is apparently

Re: seq -w floating point incorrect formating

2009-02-14 Thread Jim Meyering
Pádraig Brady wrote: > Samuel Hapák wrote: >> Hello, >> I think that seq is not behaving correctly on this input: >> seq -w 9 0.5 10 >> >> I obtain the output: >> 9.0 >> 9.5 >> 10.0 >> >> While I think I should obtain: >> 09.0 >> 09.5 >> 10.0 > > Looks like a bug alright. > I'm thinking of applyin

Re: seq -w floating point incorrect formating

2009-02-14 Thread Pádraig Brady
Samuel Hapák wrote: > Hello, > I think that seq is not behaving correctly on this input: > seq -w 9 0.5 10 > > I obtain the output: > 9.0 > 9.5 > 10.0 > > While I think I should obtain: > 09.0 > 09.5 > 10.0 Looks like a bug alright. I'm thinking of applying the attached to fix it. thanks! Pádra

Re: Add redirection to "install" for package managers

2009-02-14 Thread David A. Wheeler
Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: I hope so. I'll creating that package, including a script named "install", and see if I don't need to patch GNU install. That'll work for many cases. (I plan to use the environment variable is REDIR_DESTDIR.) If it works EXCEPT that too many people invoke

problems with date in opensuse 11.0

2009-02-14 Thread georges raseev
Hello, I try to obtain the date of the system using the command: date +%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S On a redhat system it gives the answer 2009-02-14_07-37-41 On Suse 11.0 it does not work giving date: opérande surnuméraire `+%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S' The man of SUSE 11.0 says that date +%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S is co

Re: Bug#514675: coreutils: id manpage is too short on details

2009-02-14 Thread Jim Meyering
"brian m. carlson" wrote: > Package: coreutils > Version: 6.10-6 > Severity: normal > > The manpage for id does not describe what information it prints. It > should state that by default, the information printed is the username > and userid, default/current group name and group id, and the list o