On 29/05/18 09:16, Kamil Dudka wrote: > Re-posting with a fresh subject. debbugs.gnu.org rejected my original post > because the original bug has been closed and has received no comments for > more > than 28 days: > > https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=30814 > > > On Wednesday, March 14, 2018 7:40:31 PM CEST Pádraig Brady wrote: >> Given the increase in supported size should only impact relatively few >> languages it probably makes sense to increase to 12. The attached does that >> and also augments the test to find ambiguous cases. > > The ls/abmon-align test does not work today (May 29th) because of the added > check. The problem is that: > > touch '-d+N month' for N={01..12} > > ... in general does not create 12 files with timestamps in different months. > > If you run it today (May 29th), touch '-d+09 month' results in March 1st > while > touch '-d+10 month' results in March 29th. Consequently, both 09.ts and > 10.ts > have the same month (March) to begin with and the check for duplicates has to > fail:
That was a latent issue with the original test, which I've now pushed a fix for at: https://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git;a=commitdiff;h=c8eb21c I've a local prototype to address the more general gotcha here wrt relative date adjustments, which I hope to push soon. thanks! Pádraig
