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Subject: Re: Problem with date command in BB 1.15.0
From: Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn () axis ! com>
Date: 2009-09-27 22:53:54
Message-ID: 0909280044300.12284 () somehost
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On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, Mikhail Gusarov wrote:
> Twas brillig at 01:37:38 02.09.2009 UTC+02 when vda.linux@googlemail.com did gyre and gimble:
>
> DV> This change was done intentionally.
> DV> I was unable to google any other implementation of date which
> DV> accepts such a peculiar date format: mmddHHMMyyyy (!).
>
> Looks like it is dictated by SUSv3:
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/utilities/date.html#tag_04_33,
> though I have no idea what kind of crack they did smoke while putting
> such "elegant" date format to the spec.
Ancient stuff. Lots of smoke :)
Try 'man date', second line after SYNOPSIS:
date [-u|--utc|--universal] [MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss]]
Cheers,
--
Cristian
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