Bug 10331
| Summary: | cal program won't accept years after 9999 | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Brad Garcia <garsh> |
| Component: | util-linux | Assignee: | Crutcher Dunnavant <crutcher> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 6.1 | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |
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| Last Closed: | 2000-03-24 20:38:49 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Do you really care? I cared enough to file a bug, but I won't lose any sleep if it doesn't get fixed. It just seems like a completely arbitrary limitation. I can find no reason for it. The mathematics are the same past the year 9999. The type-imposed limit for year appears to be (((MAX_LONG - 379) * 400 / 146097) + 1), or 5879610 for a 32-bit long. This limitation occurs in the day_in_week() function. I tried removing the artificial limitation and it appears to give correct results. |
Why shouldn't the cal program show years 10000 onward? > cal 1 10000 cal: illegal year value: use 1-9999