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Re: date -d YYYYMMDD.HHMM
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: date -d YYYYMMDD.HHMM |
Date: |
Thu, 08 Mar 2007 01:14:46 -0800 |
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Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) |
address@hidden (Karl Berry) writes:
> treats YYYYMMDD.HHMM as a count of seconds to the nearest 10,000th of
>
> It does?
>
> $ date -d 20070307.1010
> date: invalid date `20070307.1010'
Yes, because 'date' does not parse bare numbers as second counts; I
think this is by design. It uses that syntax in 01:02:03.1010 though.