Command date doesnt work fine.

miguelangel.martinez Wed, 11 Jul 2007 05:10:47 -0700

Dear sirs,

        I am writing to you due to an error encountered in command date in RHEL.
I have a lot of boxes running RHEL with several versions an date goes wrong o 
well depending on the system's version.


 Two examples:

---------------Case one:  wrong result

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# uname -a
Linux lgux11.lg.ehu.es 2.6.9-34.0.1.ELsmp #1 SMP Wed May 17 17:05:24 EDT 2006 
i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]#  date -d '1970/01/01 01:00:00 + 10 seconds' '+%F %T'
1970-01-01 01:50:01
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]#  date -d '1970/01/01 01:00:00 + 1 seconds' '+%F %T'
1970-01-01 01:59:01
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]#  date -d '1970/01/01 01:00:00 + 60 seconds' '+%F %T'
1970-01-01 01:00:01
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]#  date -d '1970/01/01 01:00:00 + 61 seconds' '+%F %T'
1970-01-01 00:59:01
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# date --version
date (coreutils) 5.2.1
Escrito por David MacKenzie.

Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Esto es software libre; vea el cÃ³digo fuente para las condiciones de copia.
No hay NINGUNA garantÃa; ni siquiera de COMERCIABILIDAD o IDONEIDAD PARA UN 
FIN DETERMINADO.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -al /bin/date
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 47656 oct  4  2006 /bin/date
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# 

--------------Case two:  good result
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# uname -a
Linux vcux40.vc.ehu.es 2.6.9-42.0.10.ELsmp #1 SMP Fri Feb 16 17:17:21 EST 2007 
i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# date -d '1970/01/01 01:00:00 + 
10 seconds' '+%F %T'
1970-01-01 01:00:10
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# date -d '1970/01/01 01:00:00 + 1 seconds' '+%F %T'
1970-01-01 01:00:01
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# date -d '1970/01/01 01:00:00 + 60 seconds' '+%F %T'
1970-01-01 01:01:00
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# date -d '1970/01/01 01:00:00 + 61 seconds' '+%F %T'
1970-01-01 01:01:01
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# date --version
date (coreutils) 5.2.1
Escrito por David MacKenzie.

Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Esto es software libre; vea el cÃ³digo fuente para las condiciones de copia.
No hay NINGUNA garantÃa; ni siquiera de COMERCIABILIDAD o IDONEIDAD PARA UN 
FIN DETERMINADO.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -al /bin/date
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 46484 abr 10  2006 /bin/date [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# 


Regards,
        Miguel Angel.

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