gnats/756: The 'time' command doesn't accept any command-line options

[bug-gnats]

>Number:         756
>Category:       gnats
>Synopsis:       The 'time' command doesn't accept any command-line options
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    unassigned
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Wed May 23 20:27:38 -0500 2007
>Originator:     Manoj Rajagopalan
>Release:        unable to determine
>Organization:
NVIDIA Corporation
>Environment:
RHEL4-update3
AMD Athlon 64 3500+ processor
>Description:
The 'time' command does not accept any command-line options as described in the 
time (1) manpage. It interprets these options to be the name of programs to 
run. For example,

  time --version

complains "--version: command not found".
>How-To-Repeat:
run
  
  time --version

in a shell
>Fix:
Unknown
>Notify-List:    address@hidden
>Unformatted: