Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 alpha 4/15/85; site elsie.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!elsie!ado From: ado@elsie.UUCP (Arthur David Olson) Newsgroups: net.bugs.4bsd Subject: 4.?bsd date, ac, and wtmp(5) clash on how to change time Message-ID: <5152@elsie.UUCP> Date: Sun, 23-Jun-85 18:57:42 EDT Article-I.D.: elsie.5152 Posted: Sun Jun 23 18:57:42 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Jun-85 07:42:41 EDT Organization: NIH-LEC, Bethesda, MD Lines: 20 Index: bin/date.c Description: The 4.?bsd section 5 manual page for wtmp says that ". . .the typewriter names `|' and `}' indicate the system-maintained time just before and just after a date command. . ." And the ac command does indeed look for these two characters. However, the characters '|' and '{' are what's actually written by the date command. Fix: Rather a religious issue, yes? Perhaps "ac" should be set up to accept either '{' or '}', and then again perhaps not. If "date" is doing things differently from System V, perhaps its behavior should be made to match that of System V, and then again perhaps not. Opinions? -- Time is a Time, Incorporated trademark. Is System V an AT&T Bell Laboratories trademark? -- UUCP: ..decvax!seismo!elsie!ado ARPA: elsie!ado@seismo.ARPA DEC, VAX and Elsie are Digital Equipment and Borden trademarks