[26537] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Mail problems, not microsoft
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Simon Lockhart)
Mon Jan 3 05:09:33 2000
To: Mark Milhollan <mlm@ftel.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 02 Jan 2000 21:16:18 PST."
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Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2000 10:07:40 +0000
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From: Simon Lockhart <simonl@rd.bbc.co.uk>
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>Similar minor problem here. An ancient version of GNU date was still
>in-use, and it didn't seem to like the year.
>
> $ date -d "`date`"
> date: invalid date.
Indeed, date seems to be one of the things which required patching. On a
retired, unpatched, SunOS 4.1.3_U1 machine, date returned strange things:
>date +%y%m%d produces
>:00103
>
>date +%Y%m%d gives
>date: bad format character - Y
>
>once patched it gives
>000103
>and accepts %Y
>date +%Y%m%d
>20000103
Simon
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