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Re: date -d YYYYMMDD.HHMM


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: date -d YYYYMMDD.HHMM
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 12:08:41 -0800
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address@hidden (Karl Berry) writes:

> Would it hard for date -d to accept YYYYMMDD.HHMM as well as
> YYYYMMDD HHMM?  I often use the period, since then it's a number that
> can at least be compared ...

It could be done, but it wouldn't be trivial, as the lexer currently
treats YYYYMMDD.HHMM as a count of seconds to the nearest 10,000th of
a second.




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