Hi Gopi,
You need an upgrade to tar-1.12 at least. If you intend to go for a
download, do download the latest version.(1.11.8 is not the latest).
tar1.11 is not y2k OK.
Also I would like to inform you that although tar-1.12 is considered
y2k compliant, it still has potential y2k code, which however passed the
tests applied.
Regards
Nitin
>Hi,
>
> I use gnu tar 1.11.8 (the latest) on my solaris box and do
> incremental backups using the --after-date option. tar
> breaks since Jan 1 2000 giving an "Invalid date format"
> error.
>
> I looked through the sources and found the following in
> lib/getdate.c
>
> if (Year < EPOCH || Year > 1999
> || Month < 1 || Month > 12
> /* Lint fluff: "conversion from long may lose accuracy" */
> || Day < 1 || Day > DaysInMonth[(int)--Month])
> return -1;
>
> Comments/fixes welcome.
>
>Thanks
>
>--Gopi
>
>
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