Re: date -bug: blank in Timestamp

[Bob Proulx]

Herm <address@hidden> [2002-09-03 11:05:41 +0200]:
> when generating a timestamp with
> date --date='2002-03-08 08:50:02' +%Y%m%d%k%M%S
> i get a blank in the response:
> 20020308 85002
> 
> after time has raised it looks like this:
> date --date='2002-03-08 18:50:02' +%Y%m%d%k%M%S
> 20020308185002
> This is o.k.
> 
> Problem seems to be the hour, if only one  digit is reserved.
> Is it a bug or how have i to tell date that i want to have a 0 instead of an 
> blank?

  man date

       %k     hour ( 0..23)
       %H     hour (00..23)

> date --date='2002-03-08 08:50:02' +%Y%m%d%k%M%S
> i get a blank in the response:
> 20020308 85002

  date --date='2002-03-08 08:50:02' +%Y%m%d%H%M%S
  20020308085002

Bob