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Posted to dev@subversion.apache.org by Rene Rebe <re...@gmx.net> on 2003/08/18 16:23:28 UTC
dates before "the" epoch cause svn to fail with xml parse errors
Hi,
for some strange hardware-bug reason my iBook once booted up with a
date of 1904 - which I did not noticed immediately.
After committing some files svn was not able to parse the .svn/entires
files anymore since the included timestamp was:
text-time="1904-01-05T23:43:40.000000Z"
it failed with the error:
rene@idefix:~/develop/rock/rock-linux/package/base/kiss$ svn status
svn: Bogus date
svn: read_entries: xml parser failed ().
svn: Date conversion failed.
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
It would be nice if subversion could sustain such time changes ;-)
Sincerely yours,
René Rebe
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Re: dates before "the" epoch cause svn to fail with xml parse
errors
Posted by Rene Rebe <re...@gmx.net>.
Hi,
On: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 12:40:42 -0400,
John Peacock <jp...@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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Re: dates before "the" epoch cause svn to fail with xml parse errors
Posted by John Peacock <jp...@rowman.com>.
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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