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and subject line Bug#305721: /sbin/hwclock: [hwclock] Incorrect command-line
option parsing
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Package: util-linux
Version: 2.12p-4
Severity: normal
File: /sbin/hwclock
Copy'n'pasted from a console:
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# hwclock
Thu Apr 21 13:57:19 2005 -0.594461 seconds
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# hwclock --set --date="04-21-2005 13:58:00"
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# hwclock
Sat Feb 26 13:58:05 2011 -0.675597 seconds
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# hwclock --set --date="04/21/2005 13:58:30"
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# hwclock
Thu Apr 21 13:58:35 2005 -0.624175 seconds
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When '-' is used as the date delimiter, 'hwclock' sets some weird future
day, month, and year - without any warning. It should either a) use the
option correctly, or b) fail with an error message.
Regards,
* Ben Okopnik * Editor-in-Chief, Linux Gazette * http://linuxgazette.net *
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.11.7
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages util-linux depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libuuid1 1.37-2 universally unique id library
ii slang1a-utf8 1.4.9dbs-8 The S-Lang programming library wit
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.2-4 compression library - runtime
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Version: 2.13-1
This was fixed upstream sometime before 2.13-1.
lamont
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