On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 11:36:36PM -0800, Eric G. Miller wrote: >On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 10:59:47PM -0500, Stan Heckman wrote: >> On my system, date -d returns "invalid date" for dates before 1970. It >> is possible that this began when I upgraded libc6. Any suggestions? > >1970-01-01 is time zero for *nixen. You're asking about what happened >before the big bang! Guess "date" is not as generally useful for >reformatting dates as it could be. However, its primary function is to >set/print the current date/time which is always more recent than 1970.
Guess again. It works fine here... debian 3.0r1 $ date -d "1/15/1905" Sun Jan 15 00:00:00 EST 1905 $ date -d "1/15/1905" +%s -2049994800 Wouldn't surprise me if I couldn't set my clock to negative Unix time though. <my guess> try "export LC_TIME=C" or better yet "export LC_ALL=C" man locale for details. </my guess> // George -- GEORGE GEORGALIS, System Admin/Architect cell: 347-451-8229 Security Services, Web, Mail, mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Multimedia, DB, DNS and Metrics. http://www.galis.org/george -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
