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From: "Ard Biesheuvel" <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
To: Gaurav Jain <gaurav.jain@nxp.com>
Cc: "devel@edk2.groups.io" <devel@edk2.groups.io>,
	Leif Lindholm <leif@nuviainc.com>,
	 Pankaj Bansal <pankaj.bansal@nxp.com>
Subject: Re: FW: [EXT] Re: [PATCH 1/1] EmbeddedPkg: Fixed Asserts in SCT Runtime Services test.
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2020 08:02:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKv+Gu9NXHYikOvn88WLyFpd9+ERMhcM1EbR-xSygUZJmR6TDA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKv+Gu_zmkwGvyFmVNj4pwwUD8X=G3DgN2pJUq=mu-79kFko_w@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 17 Feb 2020 at 07:56, Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 17 Feb 2020 at 07:25, Gaurav Jain <gaurav.jain@nxp.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Ard
> >
> > I have also checked UEFI Shell Specification Version 2.2(https://uefi.org/sites/default/files/resources/UEFI_Shell_2_2.pdf)
> > For date command the range of valid years is from 1998–2099 (on page 121)
> >
> > So Range of valid years is conflicting in UEFI Spec and UEFI Shell Spec.
> > I think UEFI spec needs to be corrected. What are your thoughts?
> >
>
> Page 121 does not mention data. Page 111 does, and tells me that a
> two-digit year is interpreted as 199x or 20xx, and a four digit year
> is interpreted as is.
>
> How exactly does that conflict with the UEFI spec?
>

OK, so I found this on page 111:

"""The range of valid years is from 1998–2099"""

and so indeed, the Shell 'date' command's year range is narrower than
the UEFI spec's, but that does not make it non-compliant.

      reply	other threads:[~2020-02-17  7:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-30  5:08 [PATCH 1/1] EmbeddedPkg: Fixed Asserts in SCT Runtime Services test Gaurav Jain
2020-01-30  9:21 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-01-31  8:27   ` [EXT] " gaurav.jain
2020-02-11 10:37     ` FW: " Gaurav Jain
2020-02-11 14:19       ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-02-17  6:25         ` Gaurav Jain
2020-02-17  6:56           ` Ard Biesheuvel
2020-02-17  7:02             ` Ard Biesheuvel [this message]

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