Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: at
The parsetime() function gets the wrong date, incorrectly adding a year, when
day of week is specified, and
job is to be exectuted in the new year.
Affects 8.04 and 8.10 . Older 5.10 is OK.
e.g.
$ at 9am mon
warning: commands will be executed using /bin/sh
at> foo
at> <EOT>
job 12 at Tue Jan 5 08:00:00 2010
I found the bug in at-3.1.10ubuntu4 parsetime.y line 496:
else if (!yearspec) {
if ((exectm.tm_mon < currtm.tm_mon) ||
((exectm.tm_mon == currtm.tm_mon &&
exectm.tm_mday < currtm.tm_mday)))
exectm.tm_year++;
}
To handle the case of "at DAY" where DAY is a day of the week that is next
year, that first line could be:
else if (!yearspec && exectm.tm_year == currtm.tm_year ) {
Does that look OK? I know nothing of lex and yacc (flex/bison) .
I suppose this is an upstream problem for debian and GNU?
How do I track it upstream? There doesn't seem to be an 'at' package on the GNU
mirrors.
** Affects: at (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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'at DAY_OF_WEEK' calculates wrong date when its next year.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/312051
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