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Subject: Y2K bug in parsing the -D option.
From: apaschal
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>Submitter-Id: net
>Originator: Asa Paschall
>Organization: Honeywell Inc.
>Confidential: no
>Synopsis: -D option is not Y2k compliant.
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Category: Aircraft Avionics
>Class: sw-bug
>Release: cvs-1.9
>Environment: machine
System: SunOS zerg060 5.6 Generic_105181-16 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10
Architecture: sun4
>Description:
I have been tyring to use the -D option unsuccessfully. Below is a sample of a
cvs command and the subsequent error message I received.
% cvs -q diff -D "2000-11-01 23:59:59-08"
cvs [diff aborted]: Can't parse date/time: 2000-11-01 23:59:59-08
If I change the year to 1999, the date/time is parsed correctly.
>How-To-Repeat:
Try above example.
>Fix:
<how to correct or work around the problem, if known (multiple lines)>
