[darcs-users] Problem running cvs2darcs

[Ganesh Sittampalam]

On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Tomasz Zielonka wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 12:06:48PM +0200, Jean Jordaan wrote:
> > >>>Can anyone tell me where that "19700101" comes from?
> >
> > >This is the beginning of time (January 1, 1970), and hence where your
> > >CVS repository began to exist.
> >
> > I figured that out. My cvs version doesn't like it though.
> > I got date parsing errors on a couple of variations until
> > I just yanked the option.
>
> I guess it has something to do with timezones. Perhaps 19700101 parsed
> as a local time gived negative timestamp and cvs didn't like this.
>
> 19700102 worked for me.

Yeah, this has been reported to me a long time ago (I'm the author of the
version at the urchin.earth.li repository). Unfortunately I haven't had
time for ages to look at it properly; my apologies for that. I will try to
deal with all the pending problems and patches as soon as I can.

Ganesh