[PATCH] date: permit compatible dates in -d option

David Leonard David.Leonard at digi.com
Wed Oct 28 03:09:55 UTC 2020


I'd like to withdraw this patch. It turns out that
hwclock was not the cause.

On Fri, 16 Oct 2020, David Leonard wrote:

>
> When FEATURE_DATE_COMPAT is enabled, also permit POSIX-style
> MMDDHHMM[[CC]YY] formats to be used with -d.
>
> This form is used by ancient versions of hwclock.
> ---
> coreutils/date.c                 | 50 +++++++++++++++++---------------
> testsuite/date/date-compat-works |  7 +++++
> 2 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 testsuite/date/date-compat-works


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