Re: YYYYMMDD HHMMSS [TZ] ?

[Warren Crossing]

Even when you specify the format

date -d '2007-01-01 010101' +'%Y-%m-%D %H%M%S'
date: invalid date `2007-01-01 010101'

I'd also like to see support for setting times based on date formats.

To make a copy of the entire date in order to set it seems erroneous ( 
why you may even lose precision esp. where sudo is required)

With consideration,

Warren Crossing.

Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> Micah Cowan wrote:
> > Karl Berry wrote:
> > >     It already supports YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS (also with TZ).
> > >
> > > I know, and I am glad, but as I wrote in my original message, the forms
> > > without punctuation would also be useful (to me anyway) to support.
> >
> > The punctuation is already optional:
> >
> > $ date -d 20070508\ 1406
> > Tue May  8 14:06:00 PDT 2007
>
> The original post also talked about seconds...
>
> $ date -d 20070508\ 14:06:25
> Tue May  8 14:06:25 PDT 2007
> $ date -d 20070508\ 140625
> date: invalid date `20070508 140625'
> $ date --version
> date (GNU coreutils) 6.9