GNU bug report logs - #10182
Century bug in date utility?

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Krzysztof Kowalski <krzysztof7kowalski <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 17:11:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #18 received at 10182 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Bob Proulx <bob <at> proulx.com>
To: Krzysztof Kowalski <krzysztof7kowalski <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 10182 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#10182: Century bug in date utility?
Date: Thu, 1 Dec 2011 14:42:34 -0700

Krzysztof Kowalski wrote:
> For a test I changed system time to 1997 and date utility returned 20
> century as well :)

Of course you know you don't need to change the system time to test
this.  You can do it easily with date.

  $ date -d '1997-01-01 12:00 UTC' +%C
  19

Bob
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