From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2026 09:13:46 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] http: add support for HTTP 429 rate limit retries
Message-ID: <20260215091346.GB696020@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <CAGjQmDMhWFx32M+2DrZ3cF-mt+T==LNEzXRO4z=R73RjZnTQPg@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Feb 13, 2026 at 03:41:55PM +0200, Vaidas Pilkauskas wrote:

> > There were lots of uses of "date" that I suspect may give us portability
> > problems. "+%s" is not even in POSIX, but maybe it is universal enough.
> > But stuff like '-d "+2 seconds"' seems likely to be a GNU-ism.
> >
> > Using "test-tool date" might get around some of that. We even understand
> > relative dates like "2 seconds ago", but I think only in the past. :-/
> > So you'd probably have to do:
> >
> >   now=$(test-tool date timestamp now | cut -d' ' -f3)
> >   then=$((now + 2))
> >   test-tool date show:rfc2822 $then
> >
> > or something.
> 
> I was not aware about test-tool, thanks!

It might be a little awkward to bend it to your will, especially since
it likes to print "input -> output" instead of just the output you want.
If it gets too hairy, I wouldn't be opposed to teaching it a new option
or even a new command-mode for doing this kind of computed date stuff.

-Peff