Bug 30451
| Summary: | command '/bin/date -f' not working as described | ||
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| Product: | Base System | Reporter: | Randall Raemon <rlr> |
| Component: | bin | Assignee: | freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs> |
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | ||
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | 4.2-RELEASE | ||
| Hardware: | Any | ||
| OS: | Any | ||
I can not reproduce the problem as described in the "How-To-Repeat": playtoy ulf bin/date > date -u -j -f '%s' 1000000000 Sun Sep 9 01:46:40 UTC 2001 The command is as cut+paste'ed from the PR. As to the code only taking one argument that is incorrect. The second argument given to setthetime is *argv, which in this case would be "1000000000". I tried this on 4.4-RC/-Stable. State Changed From-To: open->closed Problem fixed in later releases. |
The man page, and the help usage for the /bin/date command describe a way to parse a date format using the -f parameter. Specifically: usage: date [-nu] [-d dst] [-r seconds] [-t west] [-v[+|-]val[ymwdHMS]] ... [-f fmt date | [[[[[cc]yy]mm]dd]HH]MM[.ss]] [+format] This implies that '-f' takes 2 parameters, the format and the date to be parsed. Fix: I eyeballed the code in /usr/src/bin/date/date.c It looks like the code takes only 1 parameter, so there is some kind of mismatch between what the code is doing, and what the usage/manpage are saying. By default, the code wins... How-To-Repeat: For example: date -u -j -f '%s' 1000000000 should return a date of Sun 9 Sep 2001 about 0205 GMT Instead, I get back: Warning: Ignoring 10 extraneous characters in date string (1000000000) Sun Sep 9 03:20:06 UTC 2001 (which happens to be the current time) Aside, I was curious as to when the clock/odometer rolled over. It led me to try out the date command parameters...