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Re: EPOCHREALTIME does not behave correctly before 1970
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Alex fxmbsw7 Ratchev |
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Re: EPOCHREALTIME does not behave correctly before 1970 |
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Sun, 22 Aug 2021 22:30:26 +0200 |
why disregard or invalid, mark 0 is that date, less is minus, .. all working
On Sun, Aug 22, 2021, 22:13 Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu> wrote:
> On 8/21/21 1:28 AM, Emanuele Torre wrote:
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> > Bash Version: 5.1
> > Patch Level: 8
> > Release Status: release
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> > 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.
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> 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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> --
> ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
> ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
> Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet@case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
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