Package: faketime Version: 0.9.7-3 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
I've tried to use faketime to build something reproducibly, by using the git commit time. Git offers shortcuts for the formats "iso" (e.g. "2019-09-06 03:14:37 +0200") and "iso-strict" (e.g. "2019-09-06T03:14:37+02:00"). Steps to reproduce, and actual behavior in bash: $ LC_ALL=C faketime -f "2019-09-06 03:14:37 02:00" true # "iso" [$? = 0] $ LC_ALL=C faketime -f "2019-09-06T03:14:37+02:00" true # "iso-strict" Failed to parse FAKETIME timestamp: Success [$? = 1] Expected behavior: Either the second invocation should "just work", or produce a more meaningful error message. I prefer the first behavior, and "Success" sounds like the parsing actually worked, just got handled wrongly, so maybe this can be done easily? For my little thing I'll just use git's "iso" shortcut. Cheers, Ben Wiederhake -- System Information: Debian Release: bullseye/sid APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages faketime depends on: ii libc6 2.28-10 ii libfaketime 0.9.7-3 faketime recommends no packages. faketime suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
