Re: [Flightgear-devel] Time option --start-time-gmt broken?

[James T. <zak...@ma...>]

On 30 Oct 2011, at 10:38, ThorstenB wrote:

> Durk, for me, it does still work. However, it's all a bit fragile. The 
> are no error messages and any typo warps you to some random time. Also, 
> we're using signed 32bit integers for the time offset - so things will 
> break on 2038:01:19 ;-).
> 
> I have a patch which cleans up the time/date option parser, adds proper 
> checks and messages, also extends the time type to 64bit. Also makes it 
> possible to use partial dates/times. "--start-time-gmt=2010" would only 
> change the year then - but keep the current month/day/time.
> 
> I could push that right away - but I'll delay that for later today, to 
> not complicate your current hunt ;-).

I'm offline until 6pm (ish) UK time (which is now back to GMT!), but if you guys haven't tracked it down by then, I'll pitch in.

James