Shell script for Solaris....It can go future as long as I want, but past only 6 days....
http://www.isrcomputing.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id =125:unix-shell-script-to-calculate-date-in-the-future-and-in-the-past&c atid=38:technology-tips&Itemid=82 Best, Paul -----Original Message----- From: Philip Rowlands [mailto:p...@doc.ic.ac.uk] Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 7:40 PM To: Paul Grinberg Cc: bug-coreutils@gnu.org Subject: Re: Bug report for "date" On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Paul Grinberg wrote: > Gives me correct date: > > [ctpsmg11-dcdhealth@/opt/app/dcdhealth] # TZ=EDT+150 date > Wed Jul 22 12:27:15 EDT 2009 > > Gives me incorrect date: > [ctpsmg11-dcdhealth@/opt/app/dcdhealth] # TZ=EDT+172 date > Tue Jul 28 18:27:09 GMT 2009 > > Basically I cannot go back more than 6 days... According to the POSIX/glibc definition of TZ: http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/basedefs/xbd_chap08.html http://www.gnu.org/s/libc/manual/html_node/TZ-Variable.html the hour offset must be between 0 and 24. In other words, the examples above are undefined by the standards. Why are you trying to use TZ to concoct multi-day offsets? Cheers, Phil _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
