problems with date

[Uwe Brauer]

Hello 

I am not sure whether this is a bug, or most likely my lack of
understanding the date syntax.

I tried the following on a directory with files having dates from last
week to now.


tar cfvz --newer=20011113 BackUp.tgz BackUp   

However what ever I did with the date string, 
1. whether following the
   convention given by the date command on my Linux (Suse 7.2, ie kernel
   2.4 and glib.2.1) machine:
   man date 

   [MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][
resulting in 
tar cfvz --newer=11132001 BackUp.tgz BackUp  

It just did not work tar grabbed all the files in the directory.

What is wrong?

Thanks

Uwe Brauer