Greetings, cygwin! > Thanks for corroborating my finding. Does anybody else think it is odd > that this has not been pointed out before?
My Ubuntu Hardy box exhibiting the same behavior. > Why would date use signed long integers to hold numbers of seconds? Because, you know, UNIX time is a number of seconds elapsed since midnight Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) of Thursday, January 1, 1970. It makes sense to define times before that as negative. I think, it's just a tradeoff you have to live with. For now, at least. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdae...@freemail.ru) 23.01.2012, <15:03> Sorry for my terrible english... -- 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
