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Subject: Re: date(1) 
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From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>
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> In article <199707290356.EAA22036@awfulhak.org> you wrote:
> > > > Yep.  I think I'll fix the usage message too - shouldn't it be:
> > > > 
> > > >   [[yy[mm[dd[hh]]]]mm[.ss]]
> 
> 	It should become
> 
> 	[[[cc]yy[mm[dd[hh]]]]mm[.ss]]
> 
> 	or we are screwed in 866 days from now.
> 
> > > > I must say, this format beats the mmddhhmmyy format in SYSV !
> 
>      /usr/bin/date [-u] [[mmdd]HHMM | mmddHHMM[cc]yy][.SS]
> 
> (quote from Solaris 2.5.1 manpage)

Hmm, this says that the following are ok (the [mmdd] bit is 
extraneous too):

  date HHMM
  date mmddHHMM
  date mmddHHMMyy
  date mmddHHMMccyy
  date .SS
  date HHMM.SS
  date mmddHHMM.SS
  date mmddHHMMyy.SS
  date mmddHHMMccyy.SS

If this usage message reflects the behaviour of date(1) on Solaris, 
I'd be surprised :-I

> --
> 	I have BSD, but SYSV has me.
> 		-- heared from Igor Uwkin (uwka@big.Sun.nsk.SU)

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