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Re: date -u does not use utc to set the date
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: date -u does not use utc to set the date |
Date: |
09 Mar 2001 08:46:06 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.0.99 |
Chuck Berg <address@hidden> wrote:
| date -u does not work as documented.
[...]
| dev2:/# date ; date -u `date -u +"%m%d%H%M%Y.%S"` ; date
| Thu Mar 8 22:02:06 EST 2001
| Fri Mar 9 08:02:06 UTC 2001
| Fri Mar 9 03:02:06 EST 2001
Thanks for the report.
That's fixed in the latest test release.
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/
I just did this:
# command date ; date -u $(date -u +%m%d%H%M%Y.%S) ; command date
Fri Mar 9 08:46:19 CET 2001
Fri Mar 9 07:46:19 UTC 2001
Fri Mar 9 08:46:19 CET 2001
# date --version|head -1
date (GNU sh-utils) 2.0.11