On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, Philip Rowlands wrote:

This fails for a different reason; the format is incorrect unless using the -u flag. This really isn't obvious from the documentation, and may be a bug; the only thing -u is supposed to do is provide an implicit TZ=UTC0 environment variable.

Not a bug; I misunderstood the date-setting syntax, which is (from the manpage)

date MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss]]
or
date --set=DATESTR

Both of these can take a --utc flag, but the first syntax is much more rigid, whereas the second can utilize relative terms etc.


Cheers,
Phil


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