Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 09:00:19 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Clapper <bmc@WillsCreek.COM> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@luke.cpl.net>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: time? Message-ID: <199801051400.JAA12801@current.willscreek.com> In-Reply-To: <19980105194716.40370@lemis.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980105020251.1369A-100000@luke.cpl.net> <19980105194716.40370@lemis.com>
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On 5 January, 1998, at 19:47 (+1030)
Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> wrote:
> Sorry, you can't (currently) specify all four digits of the year.
> That's not that serious: for example, to set the year to 2002, you can
> enter:
>
> # date 0201071514
Actually, there *is* a way to specify all four digits of the year, but it's
counterintuitive (and not found on all UNIX date(1) commands). From the
FreeBSD date(1) man page:
-f Use fmt as the format string to parse the date provided rather
than using the default [[[[yy]mm]dd]HH]MM[.ss] format. Parsing
is done using strptime(3).
The command
# date -f '%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S' '1998/01/05 10:00:03'
will set the date to 05 Jan, 1998 10:00:03 AM.
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