From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 09:39:02 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: *** empty log message ***
X-Git-Tag: v5.3.0~2038
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ecb24294370b699c5293128461d86f9e9a9f5845;p=thirdparty%2Fcoreutils.git

*** empty log message ***
---

diff --git a/tests/misc/date-sec b/tests/misc/date-sec
index 117c95b500..a0b94b10f8 100755
--- a/tests/misc/date-sec
+++ b/tests/misc/date-sec
@@ -24,8 +24,13 @@ fi
 
 fail=0
 
+# It would be easier simply to sleep for two seconds between two runs
+# of `date --date="21:04 +0100" +%S` and ensure that both outputs
+# are `00', but I prefer not to sleep unconditionally.  `make check'
+# takes long enough as it is.
+
 n=0
-# Ensure that the current number of seconds is not just before `00'.
+# See if the current number of seconds is just before `00'.
 s=`date +%S`
 case "$s" in
   58) n=3;;