Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2000 15:34:45 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: keith@mail.telestream.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Request for commit to 4.0. Re: Odd date output Message-ID: <7781.950916885@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 18 Feb 2000 15:46:14 PST." <20000218154614.Z21720@fw.wintelcom.net>
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C'mon, we don't need to fix this until April, why are you bringing it
up now? Haha, just kidding. Ick. Yes, by all means please fix this!
- Jordan
> * keith@mail.telestream.com <keith@mail.telestream.com> [000218 15:01] wrote:
> > I'm running 3.4-Stable and have writen a realy nifty web based billing
> > program for us. In testing it I've run into a odd 'date' error that is
> > hosing my entire system.
> >
> > In portions of the script(s) I'm nabing the date as such
> > DATE=`/bin/date +%G%m%d`
> > All works fine there and I get what I want.
> > In other parts of the script(s) I use date in a different format
> > CURRENT_MONTH=`/bin/date +%m`
> > This also works fine with the desired output.
> > BUT,,, when I test things to make sure is all fine I step up the
> > CURRENT_MONTH with this command
> > CURRENT_MONTH=`/bin/date -v March +%m`
> > This works fine for EVERY month except for May. When I change the
> > CURRENT_MONTH to be
> > CURRENT_MONTH=`/bin/date -v May +%m` It errors out big time with this.
> >
> > ----------
> > May: Cannot apply date adjustment
> > usage: date [-nu] [-d dst] [-r seconds] [-t west] [-v[+|-]val[ymwdHMS]]
> > ...
> > [-f fmt date | [[[[[cc]yy]mm]dd]HH]MM[.ss]] [+format]
> > ----------
> >
> > Any clue as to why it would work fine on all other date adjustments with
> > May being the execption?
> >
> > Thank you.
>
> er, a pretty funny ommision in vary.c, Jordan, may I apply this patch
> to -current and -stable?
>
> I guess it broke in going from 1.1 -> 1.2
>
> :)
>
> Index: vary.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/bin/date/vary.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.7
> diff -u -u -r1.7 vary.c
> --- vary.c 1999/08/27 23:13:59 1.7
> +++ vary.c 2000/02/19 03:25:12
> @@ -41,8 +41,8 @@
>
> static struct trans trans_mon[] = {
> { 1, "january" }, { 2, "february" }, { 3, "march" }, { 4, "april" },
> - { 6, "june" }, { 7, "july" }, { 8, "august" }, { 9, "september" },
> - { 10, "october" }, { 11, "november" }, { 12, "december" },
> + { 5, "may"}, { 6, "june" }, { 7, "july" }, { 8, "august" },
> + { 9, "september" }, { 10, "october" }, { 11, "november" }, { 12, "december
" },
> { -1, NULL }
> };
>
> thanks,
> -Alfred
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