[OE-core] [PATCH] initscripts: Properly handle new timestamp format

[Lauri Hintsala]

On 03/01/2012 06:06 PM, Gary Thomas wrote:
>>> As far as I can recall (which is a really long time), 'date' has always
>>> wanted the format MMDDHHmm[YYYY], so I think that's what we should
>>> expect.
>>> That format doesn't compare easily which is why the timestamp was
>>> changed
>>> (not by me) to a more ISO standard YYYYMMDDHHmm. If busybox has 64-bit
>>> math enabled, then this can be compared with no problems, it just has
>>> to be munged into the format 'date' wants.
>>
>> So we can have compat and 64-bit math and have it properly behaving?
>
> Yes, I believe so. I'll work up the patch and test it now.


It might be very helpful for other developers if 64-bit math requirement 
of busybox would be documented somewhere.

BR,
Lauri