> According to the man page, /bin/date +%x should report the > date in the following format: mm/dd/yy
Thanks for the report. However, according to the man page of the latest stable version of coreutils, 5.94, %x gives the "locale's date representation (e.g., 12/31/99)". You may also be interested in the man page for strftime. In short, if your locale is not set to C or POSIX, then %x might produce something other than mm/dd/yy, because that is what it was designed to do. Also, your version of coreutils is a couple of years out of date, you may be interested in upgrading. > > However, when run in bash the command above reports the date in the > following format: mm/dd/yyyy Try rerunning as: env LC_ALL=C /bin/date +%x -- Eric Blake _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
