[systemd-devel] [PATCH] time-util: accept epoch timetamps prefixed with @

[Tollef Fog Heen]

]] Dave Reisner 

> On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 05:27:08PM +0100, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 11:06:47AM -0400, Dave Reisner wrote:
> > > Also adds a few tests for the absolute cases of parse_timestamp.
> > Yeah, that looks useful.
> > 
> > You don't test negative values. Maybe you could an example with a negative
> > value to the documentation and tests?
> 
> Negative epoch values? What would this represent?

Time before the epoch?

$ LANG=C date -d @-10000
Wed Dec 31 22:13:20 CET 1969

So date(1) already understands this.

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