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Message #23 received at 8572 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org>
Cc: 8572 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
Subject: Re: bug#8572: du/bigtime skip reason
Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2011 14:41:03 +0200

Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org> writes:

> If printing a date is harder than assigning that date to a file, how is then
> "ls -l" doing it?
>
> $ coreutils-8.12-64bit/src/ls -l f*
> -rw-r--r-- 1 bruno users  48 31. Mär 01:57 foo1.c
> -rw-r--r-- 1 bruno users 244 31. Mär 01:57 foo.c
> -rw-r--r-- 1 bruno users   0 922337203685477580 future
>
> Hmm. A single column instead of 3 columns? Wouldn't it be better to print
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 bruno users   0 10. Sep 29227704432 future

29227704432 is not representable in int tm_year, thus localtime fails.

Andreas.

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