Nic Ferrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > GNU date does not allow the date parsing pattern to be specified on > the command line.
Yes. > Neither does it allow use of the DATEMSK env var to hack the behaviour > of the internal call to the C library's getdate(). Yes. > Neither does it change the parsing of dates based on the environment > locale variables, eg: LC_TIME Yes. > Thus: > > $ LC_TIME=en_GB.utf8 date --date "12/05/2005" > Mon Dec 5 00:00:00 GMT 2005 > > but what it should really output is: > > Thu May 5 00:00:00 BST 2005 > > > Are my assertions incorrect or is it indeed impossible to parse this > date with the semantics that I want? I'm afraid you'll have to reformulate the date yourself, before you give it to GNU date. E.g., "date --date 2005-05-12". _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
