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date rejects proper parameters with -s option
From: |
tburt |
Subject: |
date rejects proper parameters with -s option |
Date: |
Sat, 20 Oct 2001 07:23:57 -0700 (PDT) |
According to the docs ( --help, man and info ) the date command is
supposed to accept a command line of the type:
date -s MMDDhhmm
My attempts to set the system date on my system have failed with the
following command:
address@hidden log]# date -s 10200710
date: invalid date `10200710'
I tried the following, just as an alternative and it did work...
date -s 07:10
However, this does not agree with the docs.
This is a RedHat 7.0 system that is pretty well patched up to current.
The date binary does not reveal a revision number, but here are some
strings that may help identify the source.
address@hidden log]# strings /bin/date | more
/lib/ld-linux.so.2
__gmon_start__
libc.so.6
... SNIP SNIP
GLIBC_2.1.3
GLIBC_2.1
GLIBC_2.0
... SNIP SNIP
Try `%s --help' for more information.
Usage: %s [OPTION]... [+FORMAT]
or: %s [OPTION] [MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss]]
Display the current time in the given FORMAT, or set the system date.
-d, --date=STRING display time described by STRING, not `now'
-f, --file=DATEFILE like --date once for each line of DATEFILE
-I, --iso-8601[=TIMESPEC] output an ISO-8601 compliant date/time string.
TIMESPEC=`date' (or missing) for date only,
`hours', `minutes', or `seconds' for date and
time to the indicated precision.
-r, --reference=FILE display the last modification time of FILE
-R, --rfc-822 output RFC-822 compliant date string
-s, --set=STRING set time described by STRING
-u, --utc, --universal print or set Coordinated Universal Time
--help display this help and exit
--version output version information and exit
FORMAT controls the output. The only valid option for the second form
specifies Coordinated Universal Time. Interpreted sequences are:
%%%% a literal %%
%%a locale's abbreviated weekday name (Sun..Sat)
%%A locale's full weekday name, variable length (Sunday..Saturday)
%%b locale's abbreviated month name (Jan..Dec)
%%B locale's full month name, variable length (January..December)
%%c locale's date and time (Sat Nov 04 12:02:33 EST 1989)
%%d day of month (01..31)
%%D date (mm/dd/yy)
%%e day of month, blank padded ( 1..31)
%%h same as %%b
%%H hour (00..23)
%%I hour (01..12)
%%j day of year (001..366)
%%k hour ( 0..23)
%%l hour ( 1..12)
%%m month (01..12)
%%M minute (00..59)
%%n a newline
%%p locale's AM or PM
%%r time, 12-hour (hh:mm:ss [AP]M)
%%s seconds since 00:00:00, Jan 1, 1970 (a GNU extension)
%%S second (00..60)
%%t a horizontal tab
%%T time, 24-hour (hh:mm:ss)
%%U week number of year with Sunday as first day of week (00..53)
%%V week number of year with Monday as first day of week (01..52)
%%w day of week (0..6); 0 represents Sunday
%%W week number of year with Monday as first day of week (00..53)
%%x locale's date representation (mm/dd/yy)
%%X locale's time representation (%%H:%%M:%%S)
%%y last two digits of year (00..99)
%%Y year (1970...)
%%z RFC-822 style numeric timezone (-0500) (a nonstandard extension)
%%Z time zone (e.g., EDT), or nothing if no time zone is determinable
By default, date pads numeric fields with zeroes. GNU date recognizes
the following modifiers between `%%' and a numeric directive.
`-' (hyphen) do not pad the field
`_' (underscore) pad the field with spaces
Report bugs to <address@hidden>.
memory exhausted
standard input
`%s'
invalid date `%s'
TZ=UTC0
/usr/share/locale
sh-utils
d:f:I::r:Rs:u
--iso-8601
David MacKenzie
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Timothy Burt
Internet Specialist
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