I agree strptime()-style input format specification is badly
missing in GNU date. Most other implementations support it:
- BSD with -f since 1997 (on FreeBSD at least; see also -v for adjustments)
- ast-open's with -p since 2004 (also via standard getdate() DATEMSK)
- busybox' with -D since 2006
-
Fair enough... I was worried you were objecting to the whole concept, not just
that one function
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On 7/10/24 15:12, mark.yagnatin...@barclays.com wrote:
Re: strptime is mistake: you think that particular function is bad
Yes, though I lack the time to go into details right now.
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On 7/10/24 13:59, mark.yagnatinsky--- via GNU coreutils Bug Reports wrote:
BSD date has this flag
Unfortunately it uses -f for the flag, and -f already has a
well-established different meaning in GNU 'date'. We could add it to GNU
date under a different (long) option name, though we'd still b
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I'm dubious. I've never had much luck with strptime, as in practice it
has its own glitches that are even worse than what 'date' currently
uses. For example, it's dicey in non-C locales, and it mishandles time
zones and daylight saving transitions even in the C locale.
That being said, if some
I suspect this has been requested many times over the decades but I haven't
found anything in the issue tracker so...
The date command lets you choose my output format, but for input it tries to
figure it out without hints. For interactive use, this is great.
For usage in scripts, this is less t
