From: Ladislav Michl <la...@linux-mips.org>
Coreutils date behaves this way since 1998-12-11 as done in their git commit
a17cdb11731e ("(main): Arrange to exit unsuccessfully when stime fails.")
Signed-off-by: Ladislav Michl <la...@linux-mips.org>
---
CHANGES:
-v2: better compatibily with coreutils, add explaining commit message
coreutils/date.c | 10 +++++++---
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/coreutils/date.c b/coreutils/date.c
index 3a89b6caf..09d5697dc 100644
--- a/coreutils/date.c
+++ b/coreutils/date.c
@@ -166,12 +166,13 @@ int date_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char **argv)
struct tm tm_time;
char buf_fmt_dt2str[64];
unsigned opt;
- int isofmt = -1;
char *date_str;
char *fmt_dt2str;
char *fmt_str2dt;
char *filename;
char *isofmt_arg = NULL;
+ int ret = EXIT_SUCCESS;
+ int isofmt = -1;
opt = getopt32long(argv, "^"
"Rs:ud:r:"
@@ -287,9 +288,12 @@ int date_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char **argv)
ts.tv_sec = validate_tm_time(date_str, &tm_time);
ts.tv_nsec = 0;
- /* if setting time, set it */
+ /* if setting time, set the system clock to the specified date,
+ * then regardless of the success of that operation,
+ * format and print that date. */
if ((opt & OPT_SET) && clock_settime(CLOCK_REALTIME, &ts) < 0) {
bb_simple_perror_msg("can't set date");
+ ret = EXIT_FAILURE;
}
}
@@ -383,5 +387,5 @@ int date_main(int argc UNUSED_PARAM, char **argv)
}
puts(date_buf);
- return EXIT_SUCCESS;
+ return ret;
}
--
2.39.2
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