Re: dates before "the" epoch cause svn to fail with xml parse errors

Rene Rebe wrote:
> for some strange hardware-bug reason my iBook once booted up with a
> date of 1904 - which I did not noticed immediately.

That is the Mac Epoch, believe or not. What is worse is that the Mac epoch was
defined to start Jan 1, 1904 LOCAL TIME, so it is a floating epoch. Worst idea
ever conceived.

>
> rene@idefix:~/develop/rock/rock-linux/package/base/kiss$ svn status
> svn: Bogus date
> svn: read_entries: xml parser failed ().
> svn: Date conversion failed.
>

This may be due to the fact that every other O/S uses negative numbers for
date/time values before the Unix epoch of Jan 1, 1970 UTC. What was the O/S for
the client _and_ server in this instance?

John

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