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Re: Using date with the -d option produces inconsistent results


From: Eric Blake
Subject: Re: Using date with the -d option produces inconsistent results
Date: Sun, 04 Jun 2006 18:30:24 +0000

> $ date -d 08:43
> Sun Jun  4 08:43:00 CEST 2006
> 
> $ $date -d 2006-06-04T08:43
                       ^
> Sun Jun  4 03:43:00 CEST 2006
> ------------^

The date parser currently treats T as the military time zone
designator, and not the ISO field separator between
date and time.  Patches to the parser are welcome, but
for now this is a documented limitation of the ambiguities
of date parsing.

-- 
Eric Blake




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