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bug#11843: date -s vs encoding bug.
From: |
Bob Proulx |
Subject: |
bug#11843: date -s vs encoding bug. |
Date: |
Mon, 2 Jul 2012 13:31:18 -0600 |
User-agent: |
Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
Jim Meyering wrote:
> Andreas Schwab wrote:
> > Jim Meyering writes:
> >> To get the behavior you want (a nominally no-op date-setting command),
> >> you should use this instead:
> >>
> >> date -s "$(date '+%F %T.%N')"
> >
> > That fails to be a no-op during the ambigous end-of-dst period. Better
> > use an unambigous format.
> >
> > # date -s @$(date +%s.%N)
>
> Yep. That is both shorter *and* better :-)
> Thanks.
I updated the 'date' FAQ section with an example of this type of usage.
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/faq/#The-date-command-is-not-working-right_002e
Bob