bug#17937: Getting gnu touch and gnu date to play nicely

[address@hidden]

On 07/04/2014 02:15 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> tag 17937 notabug
> close 17937
> stop
>
> On 07/04/2014 11:18 AM, address@hidden wrote:
> > Most of the time I love Linux CLI, but rare occasions like this s*** makes me 
> > want to throw my computer through the wall!
> >
> >  From the touch manpage.
> >
> > -d, --date=STRING
> > parse STRING and use it instead of current time
> >
> >
> >
> > ~$ touch -d="now" file
> > touch: invalid date format ‘=now’
> > ~$ touch -d="$(date)" file
> > touch: invalid date format ‘=Fri Jul 4 06:05:22 EDT 2014’
> > ~$ touch -d="$(date -R)" file
> > touch: invalid date format ‘=Fri, 04 Jul 2014 06:05:30 -0400’
> > ~$ touch -d="$(date -u)" file
> > touch: invalid date format ‘=Fri Jul 4 10:05:33 UTC 2014’
> >
> >
> > Is it possible that touch could get an update to support the common output 
> > provided by the gnu version of `date`?
> They'll mostly work if you remove the '='

Thanks Brady and Proulx.
You're absolutely correct. I obviously made the mistake. I never make that 
mistake with the '=' so I don't know why I did now. I appreciate all your help. :)