Problem with date command in BB 1.15.0

[Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn]

On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, Mikhail Gusarov wrote:

> Twas brillig at 01:37:38 02.09.2009 UTC+02 when vda.linux at googlemail.com did gyre and gimble:
>
>  DV> This change was done intentionally.
>  DV> I was unable to google any other implementation of date which
>  DV> accepts such a peculiar date format: mmddHHMMyyyy (!).
>
> Looks like it is dictated by SUSv3:
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/utilities/date.html#tag_04_33,
> though I have no idea what kind of crack they did smoke while putting
> such "elegant" date format to the spec.

Ancient stuff.  Lots of smoke :)

Try 'man date', second line after SYNOPSIS:

	date [-u|--utc|--universal] [MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss]]


Cheers,

-- 
Cristian