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Re: Follow Up: Re: date broken in coreutils-6.7 and new glibc-2.7
From: |
Clemens Koller |
Subject: |
Re: Follow Up: Re: date broken in coreutils-6.7 and new glibc-2.7 |
Date: |
Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:01:55 +0100 |
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Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) |
Philip Rowlands wrote:
>> This fails for a different reason; the format is incorrect unless
>> using the -u flag. This really isn't obvious from the documentation,
>> and may be a bug; the only thing -u is supposed to do is provide an
>> implicit TZ=UTC0 environment variable.
>
> Not a bug; I misunderstood the date-setting syntax, which is (from the
> manpage)
>
> date MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss]]
> or
> date --set=DATESTR
>
> Both of these can take a --utc flag, but the first syntax is much more
> rigid, whereas the second can utilize relative terms etc.
Yeah, no problem... aside from the date syntax, it was a bug in the kernel.
Actually setting the date once with -u or -s works (if done right), but
the kernel takes a long time (up to (a few) minutes) to update it's date.
2.6.23+ seems to be ok.
Thank you,
Regards,
Clemens Koller
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