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bug#11843: date -s vs encoding bug.
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Andreas Schwab |
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bug#11843: date -s vs encoding bug. |
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Date: |
Mon, 02 Jul 2012 19:55:04 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.1 (gnu/linux) |
Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
> To get the behavior you want (a nominally no-op date-setting command),
> you should use this instead:
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> date -s "$(date '+%F %T.%N')"
That fails to be a no-op during the ambigous end-of-dst period. Better
use an unambigous format.
# date -s @$(date +%s.%N)
Andreas.
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