I want to thank everybody that responded. It looks like you don't think
this is a bug. Given that date seems to work as I expect on SL 6.0, I
would like to make a feature request: "Fix the date command to actually
respond with the date"
Big Props to all you guys that make this software possible and help out
users like me.
-Dave
On 1/24/2012 12:30 AM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] wrote:
Keith Christian sent the following at Monday, January 23, 2012 2:00 PM
cygwin sent the following at Sunday, January 22, 2012 3:39 PM
On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E]
<bbuchbin...@niaid.nih.gov> wrote:
/c> cal 9 1752
September 1752
Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa
1 2 14 15 16
17 18 19 20 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Is this a bug?
Not a bug, see: http://www.infoplease.com/spot/gregorian1.html.
Just for the record (and my self-respect), that was a rhetorical
question. (Or was it sarcastic?)
9/1752 was the transition only for Great Britain and its
dependencies. See Wikipedia for other places.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar#Adoption>
(I especially like Alaska, which combined a changed calendar with
a shift of the International Dateline.)
So (rhetorical) questions for the OP would be how to fix
- date and cal so that they properly take into account changes to
calendars in different locations.
- date to account for leap seconds.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_epoch#Encoding_time_as_a_number>
Also, the OP asked why a signed long integer. See
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time#Representing_the_number>
- Barry
Disclaimer: Statements made herein are not made on behalf of NIAID.
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