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Re: EPOCHREALTIME does not behave correctly before 1970
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: EPOCHREALTIME does not behave correctly before 1970 |
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Sun, 22 Aug 2021 16:13:28 -0400 |
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On 8/21/21 1:28 AM, Emanuele Torre wrote:
Bash Version: 5.1
Patch Level: 8
Release Status: release
get_epochrealtime() casts tv.tv_sec (a time_t a.k.a. int) to unsigned
int causing EPOCHREALTIME to not behave correctly before the Unix Epoch.
The definition is seconds since the Unix epoch. It's not surprising that it
doesn't pay attention to dates before that.
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Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/