Re: PDT timezone bug in GNU coreutils date v6.9

2008-01-16 Thread gmane
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 22:06:38 -0800 Paul Eggert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The actual problem is the reverse of the original complaint. Coreutils should reject a usage like 'date -d Tue Jan 14 08:25:26 EDT 2008 +%s', because that time stamp is invalid. Coreutils is not smart enough to correctly

PDT timezone bug in GNU coreutils date v6.9

2008-01-15 Thread gmane
To whom it may concern: I believe I have identified a bug in the GNU coreutils date utility when handling the PDT timezone. I'm running Fedora 8 kernel 2.6.23.9-85.fc8, and the command date - -version reports: date (GNU coreutils) 6.9 When using the -d option to display the specified time (vs

Re: Submission of new app for core/file utils

2004-03-14 Thread era+gmane
On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 10:24:00 -0800 (PST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted to bug-coreutils: This source is released into the public domain under the GPL. Huh? Either it's public domain or it's GPL. Briefly, public domain means anyone can do anything with it, while under the GPL, you have some

Re: RFC: cp -if a b: should it prompt? POSIX says `yes', most don't

2004-02-18 Thread era+gmane
On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 18:57:27 +0100, Jim Meyering [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted to gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Jarc) wrote: Jim Meyering [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a discrepancy between POSIX and common practice with respect to how `cp -if a b' should work.

Re: bug in 'wc -l'

2004-02-06 Thread era+gmane
On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 13:05:09 +0100 (MET), Alfred M. Szmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted to gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs: I am sending you a patch to solve a 'problem' at the wc program. When used with -l option (to count the number of lines) the last line isn't counted. It counts

join: wishlist: warn (or even fail) when input is not sorted

2004-01-26 Thread era+gmane
I can't remember how many times I had wished for join(1) to at least give a warning when input is not properly sorted. Based on a quick look at the 5.1.2 sources, I think it should be feasible to add a simple check to src/join.c in the function join() but I'm not sure if it's the best or most