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Subject: bin/5269: Wrong parsing of /bin/date (1) parameters
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>Number:         5269
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       Wrong parsing of /bin/date (1) parameters
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Dec 10 14:30:01 PST 1997
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Are Bryne
>Organization:
Communique DA
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE i386
>Environment:

Last cvsup'ed all sources at Dec  3 23:24 CET, and did a make world
afterwards.

>Description:

date(1) says it takes the following command line arguments:

usage: date [-nu] [-d dst] [-r seconds] [-t west] [+format]
            [-v [+|-]val[ymwdHM]] ... [-f fmt date | [[[[yy]mm]dd]HH]MM[.ss]]

When supplying both a <format> and the -v option, I am required to swap
the placement to the opposite of what I'm told to do.

>How-To-Repeat:

% date +%y -v-1y
date: illegal time format

% date -v-1y +%y
96

>Fix:
	
Change the documentation, or parse the command line differently. If any change
is made to the parsing, it should perhaps accept both variants.

>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: