bug in x86/uclibc busybox touch

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Thursday 16 December 2010 13:54, Natanael Copa wrote:
> $ touch -t 0001010000 moo
> touch: invalid date '0001010000'
> 
> the above works with coreutils touch and interestingly enough, with
> x86_64 uclibc busybox

Because 1900-01-01 is a negative Unix time which doesn't fit
into 32-bit long.

"busybox touch -t 0112130000 file" works,
and sets t=-2147475600 (0x80001f70).

Previous day, -t 0112130000, doesn't.

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