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Re: date -d YYYYMMDD.HHMM


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: date -d YYYYMMDD.HHMM
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 01:14:46 -0800
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address@hidden (Karl Berry) writes:

>     treats YYYYMMDD.HHMM as a count of seconds to the nearest 10,000th of
>
> It does?
>
> $ date -d 20070307.1010
> date: invalid date `20070307.1010'

Yes, because 'date' does not parse bare numbers as second counts; I
think this is by design.  It uses that syntax in 01:02:03.1010 though.




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