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Re: Follow Up: Re: date broken in coreutils-6.7 and new glibc-2.7


From: Philip Rowlands
Subject: Re: Follow Up: Re: date broken in coreutils-6.7 and new glibc-2.7
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:11:07 +0000 (GMT)

On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Philip Rowlands wrote:

This fails for a different reason; the format is incorrect unless using the -u flag. This really isn't obvious from the documentation, and may be a bug; the only thing -u is supposed to do is provide an implicit TZ=UTC0 environment variable.

Not a bug; I misunderstood the date-setting syntax, which is (from the manpage)

date MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss]]
or
date --set=DATESTR

Both of these can take a --utc flag, but the first syntax is much more rigid, whereas the second can utilize relative terms etc.


Cheers,
Phil




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