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

From: Rene Rebe <rene.rebe_at_gmx.net>
Date: 2003-08-18 18:51:00 CEST

Hi,

On: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 12:40:42 -0400,
    John Peacock <jpeacock@rowman.com> wrote:
> 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.

ACK.

> > 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?

The client was already in the orignial mail:

> > rene@idefix:~$ svn --version
> > svn, version 0.26.0 (r6550)
> > compiled Aug 14 2003, 16:11:59
> >
> > rene@idefix:~$ uname -a
> > Linux idefix 2.4.21-benh2-rock #1 Mon Aug 4 03:13:17 CEST 2003 ppc unknown unknown GNU/Linux

The server is:

rene:~$ uname -a
Linux heap 2.4.21-rc2-rock #1 Mon May 26 21:57:17 CEST 2003 i686 unknown
rene:~$ svn --version
svn, version 0.26.0 (r6550)
   compiled Aug 5 2003, 22:30:52

Both glibc-2.3.2 with a gcc-3.2.x.

> John

Sincerely yours,
  René Rebe
    - ROCK Linux stable release maintainer

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