Bug 73099 - "redhat-config-date" allows time not supported by GNU date utility
Summary: "redhat-config-date" allows time not supported by GNU date utility
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Status: CLOSED DEFERRED
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Public Beta
Classification: Retired
Component: redhat-config-date
Version: null
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Brent Fox
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-08-30 18:53 UTC by Peter van Egdom
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2002-08-30 18:56:14 UTC
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Year 2046 unsupported by GNU date but supported by redhat-config-date (61.50 KB, image/png)
2002-08-30 18:56 UTC, Peter van Egdom 		no flags Details
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Description Peter van Egdom 2002-08-30 18:53:01 UTC 
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Description of problem:
The "redhat-config-date" tool allows the user to set a date which is
unsupported by the GNU date tool.

See screenshot.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start redhat-config-date
2. Select 2053 as year.
3.
	

Actual Results:
Observe that redhat-config-date allows to set this year, but GNU's date
utility doesn't.

Expected Results:  Consistency :-)

Additional info:

redhat-config-date-1.5.2-7
sh-utils-2.0.12-2
Comment 1 Peter van Egdom 2002-08-30 18:56:08 UTC 
Created attachment 74004 [details]
Year 2046 unsupported by GNU date but supported by redhat-config-date
Comment 2 Brent Fox 2002-08-30 20:54:01 UTC 
I hope I get this fixed by 2046.  ;)

Seriously though, it's too late to change this for this release, but I'll take a
look at it for the next release.  Deferring for now.
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