From: Lauri Hintsala <lauri.hintsala@bluegiga.com>
To: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] initscripts: Properly handle new timestamp format
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 08:15:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F506587.50904@bluegiga.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F4F9E70.7010807@mlbassoc.com>
On 03/01/2012 06:06 PM, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>> As far as I can recall (which is a really long time), 'date' has always
>>> wanted the format MMDDHHmm[YYYY], so I think that's what we should
>>> expect.
>>> That format doesn't compare easily which is why the timestamp was
>>> changed
>>> (not by me) to a more ISO standard YYYYMMDDHHmm. If busybox has 64-bit
>>> math enabled, then this can be compared with no problems, it just has
>>> to be munged into the format 'date' wants.
>>
>> So we can have compat and 64-bit math and have it properly behaving?
>
> Yes, I believe so. I'll work up the patch and test it now.
It might be very helpful for other developers if 64-bit math requirement
of busybox would be documented somewhere.
BR,
Lauri
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-02 6:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-01 14:43 [PATCH] initscripts: Properly handle new timestamp format Gary Thomas
2012-03-01 14:59 ` Richard Purdie
2012-03-01 15:11 ` Gary Thomas
2012-03-01 15:27 ` Gary Thomas
2012-03-01 15:44 ` Richard Purdie
2012-03-01 15:52 ` Gary Thomas
2012-03-01 16:04 ` Otavio Salvador
2012-03-01 16:06 ` Gary Thomas
2012-03-02 6:15 ` Lauri Hintsala [this message]
2012-03-01 16:01 ` Otavio Salvador
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