touch --date=TIME argument

[Jeffrey Walton]

Hi Everyone,

I'm trying to restore filetimes based on the timestamp from a ZIP file.

I can extract the newest filetime from a ZIP with:

    unzip -l "${file}" 2>&1 | head -n -3 | tail -n +4 | cut -b 12-27 |
sort -r | uniq | head -n 1

(The head and tail trims away header and footer cruft so only
date/time's remain).

That yields a date/time like:

    12-31-1998 23:07

When I plug it into 'touch' it results in:

    Setting /var/www/html/crypto30.zip to 12-31-1998 23:07
    touch: invalid date format ‘12-31-1998 23:07’

Is there some way to get touch to accept the date/time from the ZIP archive?

Thanks in advance