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Re: coreutils-5.2.1, touch, and 64-bit time-of-day clocks
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Andreas Schwab |
Subject: |
Re: coreutils-5.2.1, touch, and 64-bit time-of-day clocks |
Date: |
Fri, 02 Apr 2004 17:49:26 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
"Nelson H. F. Beebe" <address@hidden> writes:
> It looks to me like the "invalid date format" diagnostic is simply an
> artificial restriction on the argument of touch that should be
> removed in the next release of coreutils.
Unfortunately, POSIX specifies that the century field shall have exactly
two digits when present.
Andreas.
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