Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2001 22:29:14 -0500 From: Randall Raemon <rlr@shikahrsoho.com> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: bin/30451: command '/bin/date -f' not working as described Message-ID: <E15fvHW-000JDJ-00@tuvela.shikahrsoho.com>
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>Number: 30451
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: command '/bin/date -f' not working as described
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sat Sep 08 20:40:01 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Randall Raemon
>Release: FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
The man page, and the help usage for the /bin/date command
describe a way to parse a date format using the -f parameter.
Specifically:
usage: date [-nu] [-d dst] [-r seconds] [-t west] [-v[+|-]val[ymwdHMS]] ...
[-f fmt date | [[[[[cc]yy]mm]dd]HH]MM[.ss]] [+format]
This implies that '-f' takes 2 parameters, the format and the
date to be parsed.
>How-To-Repeat:
For example:
date -u -j -f '%s' 1000000000
should return a date of Sun 9 Sep 2001 about 0205 GMT
Instead, I get back:
Warning: Ignoring 10 extraneous characters in date string (1000000000)
Sun Sep 9 03:20:06 UTC 2001 (which happens to be the current time)
Aside, I was curious as to when the clock/odometer rolled over.
It led me to try out the date command parameters...
>Fix:
I eyeballed the code in /usr/src/bin/date/date.c It looks like the
code takes only 1 parameter, so there is some kind of mismatch
between what the code is doing, and what the usage/manpage are
saying. By default, the code wins...
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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