On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Enrique Arizón Benito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Upps, I forgot it. > > #date -s "1970-01-01 00:00:01" > date: cannot set date: Invalid argument It looks like date is simply reporting an error that it received from the operating system. The strace utility (or some platform-specific replacement if you are not using Linux) should be able to confirm this. > Thu Jan 1 00:00:01 CET 1970 > > Curiosly after the Invalid argument error, date properly prints the new hour > but doesn't change it. This is almost certainly because the date program understands the date you refer to, but failed in its attempt to set the system clock to that value. > That's what makes me think it's really a bug. More likely it's because CET is 1h ahead of UTC and therefore the time you specified is before the Epoch. But Eric already said that, so perhaps you ruled out that possibility but did not say so. James _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
