bb date

Bernhard Fischer rep.nop at aon.at
Thu Sep 7 19:24:49 UTC 2006


On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 02:50:10PM -0400, Chey wrote:
>BB's date command seems to only accept two formats for setting the
>date. Are these to formats subject to bb's date command only or should
>those two formats work on other distros as well?
>
>I'm asking because I cannot set the date with bb's date command and
>use that same command to set the date on my Debian box.
>
>I'm having trouble creating a portable script to set the date because of this.
>
>Any thoughts on that?
>
>I'm using bb 1.2.1.

IIRC i touched date recently and fixed some severe bugs. Can you please
a) retry with trunk and
b) provide some example as to what you're trying to do?



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