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Package: shellutils
Version: 2.0.11-11
Severity: normal
An ugly shell script hack that has worked for many years on many
unix versions to get the previous days date is to set TZ to a large
offset:
TZ=PST32PDT date "+%m.%d.%y"
would display the previous days date (Pacific time).
Gnu date apperently siglently limits the timezone offset to 23, so the
above command will SOMETIMES show todays date instead with no error
message. (The SOMETIMES makes this even harder to debug.) This
breaks portable and older shell scripts. (I realize there are better
ways of doing this using Gnu date, but they don't work on solaris or
aix.)
I'd like to see date made compatable with this hack, or at least have
it give an error rather than the wrong date.
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux monkey 2.4.18-686 #1 Sun Apr 14 11:32:47 EST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C
Versions of packages shellutils depends on:
ii libc6 2.2.5-11.1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii login 20000902-12 System login tools
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Version: 2.5
On Thu, Sep 12, 2002 at 12:10:48PM -0700, Blars Blarson wrote:
> Package: shellutils
> Version: 2.0.11-11
> Severity: normal
>
> An ugly shell script hack that has worked for many years on many
> unix versions to get the previous days date is to set TZ to a large
> offset:
>
> TZ=PST32PDT date "+%m.%d.%y"
>
> would display the previous days date (Pacific time).
>
> Gnu date apperently siglently limits the timezone offset to 23, so the
> above command will SOMETIMES show todays date instead with no error
that's correct, this is also another libc bug, which I don't remember
the # of, that is fixed in 2.3.5 afaict.
hence closing.
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