bug#45695: Date does not work for dates before 1970

2021-01-12 Thread Bob Proulx
zed991 wrote: > On linux, I can use date +%s --date "31 Dec 1969" > The result is -9 > A negative number Which is correct for dates before the 0 time: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 + https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_time > But when I try it on Windows (using GNUWin32) it gives

bug#45695: Date does not work for dates before 1970

2021-01-06 Thread Philip Rowlands
On Wed, 6 Jan 2021, at 16:34, zed991 wrote: > On linux, I can use date +%s --date "31 Dec 1969" > The result is -9 > A negative number > > But when I try it on Windows (using GNUWin32) it gives me an error - > "invalid date" > > I downloaded date for windows from this link - >

bug#45695: Date does not work for dates before 1970

2021-01-06 Thread zed991
On linux, I can use date +%s --date "31 Dec 1969" The result is -9 A negative number But when I try it on Windows (using GNUWin32) it gives me an error - "invalid date" I downloaded date for windows from this link - http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/coreutils.htm Is there any fix