[GetDizzy]

04:19 < Insidious> I have found a bug in GNU Date!
04:19 < Insidious> specifically, if you tell it this:
04:20 < Insidious> date --date=12/31/1969\ 23:59:59\ UTC +%s
04:20 < Insidious> it responds with "invalid date"
04:20 < Insidiou1> however, the date is not invalid
04:20 < Insidiou1> that just happens to be exactly -1 seconds since 1-1-1970 00:00:00
04:21 < Insidiou1> which, seeing as it returns a -1, it assumes to be an error.
04:21 < Insidiou1> to test my theory I tried with this setup
04:21 < Insidiou1> date --date=12/31/1969\ 23:59:58\ UTC +%s
04:21 < Insidiou1> and it replies with -2.
04:23 < Insidiou1> so PAH
04:23 < Insidiou1> all these people that worried about the Y2k problem
04:23 < Insidiou1> we really need to worry about the Y1970-minus-1-second problem!
04:25 I have no idea what that means.
04:26 Tox: It means that were linux created before 1970 (it wasnt)
04:26 that all linux machines would have failed to display the date
04:26 on 11:59:59PM on December 31st 1969.
04:27 Oh my.
04:34 I think my cameo game will feature a time machine that goes back to exactly that second in 1969 and then explodes.
04:35 see, thats who it'd be a major problem for
04:35 hippies who have time machines.

[akai]

So linux was created with a bug that doesn't affect it. OMG. Insid, you must be repeatedly flogged with every sex toy koji owns for this blasphemous post.

[Dr Lancer-X]

1970 was the Epoch. Nothing before then matters, and is time immemorial. We should erase all history of events prior to that date.

[Spectere]

akai, on Jun 22 2006, 03:43 AM, said:

Insid, you must be repeatedly flogged with every sex toy koji owns for this blasphemous post.

*grabs camcorder*

[Koji]

Well thats not much of a punishment as I don't have any sex toys... CHUCK... >.>

[GetDizzy]

[url="http://www.achewood.com/index.php?date=00000000"]http://www.achewood....p?date=00000000[/url]
even achewood knows about the problem!