From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 15:20:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Update tests to use test-chmtime
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702251618380.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vzm72vhl4.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Sat, 24 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> writes:
> 
> > -case "$(date -d @11111111 +%s 2>/dev/null)" in
> > -11111111)
> > ...
> > -	touch -m -t "$predate1" $rr/preimage
> > -	touch -m -t "$predate2" $rr2/preimage
> > ...
> > -esac
> > +now=$(date +%s)
> > +almost_15_days_ago=$(($now+60-15*86400))
> > +just_over_15_days_ago=$(($now-1-15*86400))
> > +almost_60_days_ago=$(($now+60-60*86400))
> > +just_over_60_days_ago=$(($now-1-60*86400))
> > +
> > +test-chmtime =$almost_60_days_ago $rr/preimage
> > +test-chmtime =$almost_15_days_ago $rr2/preimage
> 
> Very nice.
> I've been wanting to get rid of this part for quite a while.
> 
> However, is '+%s' output portable enough for this change to be
> an improvement?

It is not portable, but according to the man page:

	%s seconds since 00:00:00, Jan 1, 1970 (a GNU extension)

> I would suggest changing "test-chmtime =-200 file" to set the mtime of 
> the file to 200 seconds in the past, relative to present.

I wanted to propose the same, but without a patch :-)

Ciao,
Dscho