lpstat dates bogus

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Thu Jul 28 11:05:37 PDT 2005


terry mcintyre wrote:
> The output of "lpstat -a" is typically
> 
> LP0 accepting requests since Jan 01 00:00
> 
> I thought my system must be misconfigured or something, so I googled it - and apparently this "Jan 01 00:00" date is accepted as normal behavior.
> 
> What's up? Is the date not stored somewhere? Better to print no date at all, than a bogus date.

The (correct) date is not stored or available.  We had to add it so
that legacy apps which parse the output of lpstat will continue to
work.

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