Hi Phil, > For curiosity's sake, I've been trying to track down the pedigree of > this --backward option to touch, as although I think I've disproved its > necessity, it seems a useful idea. My application: Basically I have some pictures taken from a different timezone and I forgot to change the time of my camera. I want to change the timestamp of these pictures in order to reflect the correct time. The --backward/--forward are exactly what I need, and when I googled "linux touch backward", the first hit uses and describes these backward/forward options for the "touch" command. I would find convenient to support these 2 options (they were existing and supported in earlier versions).
> To address the original requirement though, would it be useful for GNU > touch to support an "--offset" option, taking a signed [fractional?] > number of seconds to affect the target date? I don't feel necessary to rename the option to "--offset" since backward/forward have been existing in earlier versions. But I think it's more a personal preference here. By the way, I used version 4.5.3, and it works (the options are present). For example, to modify a timestamp by 1 hour: touch -r foo -backward 3600 foo Thanks, Laurent __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
