Re: date -s (Re: Daylight Savings Time problem)

[Jim Meyering <meyering@asic.sc.ti.com>]

From: Karl Eichwalder <ke@ke.Central.DE>
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 96 20:22 MET DST

| [keelings@wu1.wl.aecl.ca (S. Keeling)]
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| |     516  date -u -s 0413150496
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| |   	Can anyone tell me what was wrong with line 516?
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| Sorry, I don't know.  I normally use
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|     date -s "1996-04-07 18:06:00" +"%Y-%m-%d %T"
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| There should a switch to force the ISO format.  I do a Cc: jo Jim, the
| sh-utils maintainer.

As the usage message vaguely implies :-)

  % date --h
  Usage: date [OPTION]... [+FORMAT]
    or:  date [OPTION] [MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss]]

the `MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss]' format may be used only when it is the
last argument.  Pretty many formats are accepted by --set=DATE
(or -s DATE) but that's not one of them.

But in any case, date should accept that or give a better error
message.  I'll try to fix this for the imminent alpha release.

Thanks for the report.

Jim