On 08/24/2010 03:06 AM, Voelker, Bernhard wrote: > $ TZ=Pacific/Kwajalein date -d 1993-08-20 > date: invalid date `1993-08-20' > > but it doesn't fail on my Cygwin installation (see below). > Is there a porting/packaging issue?
Most likely it is either a difference in the tzdata package, or a bug in the newlib implementation of mktime(3); very unlikely to be a bug in the porting of coreutils. But you'd have to step through it in a debugger to find out for sure. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-801-349-2682 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple