Package: coreutils Version: 8.13-3.2 Severity: normal Hello,
I stumbled across a problem with the 'date' command which is related to the architecture of the host system. On 32 bit machines, 'date' can output incorrect results or even output confusing error messages while the same calculations yield correct results on 64 bit systems. On i386: glaubitz@wheezy32:~> lsb_release -rsc testing wheezy glaubitz@wheezy32:~> uname -a Linux wheezy32 3.2.0-2-686-pae #1 SMP Mon May 21 18:24:12 UTC 2012 i686 GNU/Linux glaubitz@wheezy32:~> date -d "1000 months ago" date: invalid date `1000 months ago' glaubitz@wheezy32:~> date -d "2000 months ago" Tue Nov 17 06:08:56 UTC 1981 glaubitz@wheezy32:~> On amd64: glaubitz@wheezy64:~> lsb_release -rsc testing wheezy glaubitz@wheezy64:~> uname -a Linux wheezy64 3.2.0-2-amd64 #1 SMP Mon May 21 17:45:41 UTC 2012 x86_64 GNU/Linux glaubitz@wheezy64:~> date -d "1000 months ago" Sun Feb 10 23:43:18 UTC 1929 glaubitz@wheezy64:~> date -d "2000 months ago" Fri Oct 10 23:43:21 UTC 1845 glaubitz@wheezy64:~> A wild guess would be that the different size of time_t on i386 and amd64 could be responsible for this behavior. This bug doesn't seem to be Debian-specific neither and hence should be forwarded to upstream. Regards, Adrian -- System Information: Debian Release: wheezy/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (100, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages coreutils depends on: ii dpkg 1.16.3 ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-10 ii libacl1 2.2.51-7 ii libattr1 1:2.4.46-7 ii libc6 2.13-33 ii libselinux1 2.1.9-2 coreutils recommends no packages. coreutils suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
