On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 01:21:08AM +0200, [email protected] wrote: > OK, the Math is right, but the assumptions made by date aren't smart. I > "overtested" your one liner with the kinds of input you would grab using jq > from youtube .info.json files
> and to my amazement, when you only have two semicolon separated values, the > bash date utility assumes the first chunk to be the hours and the second the > minutes!: I am not at all surprised. It could have been either HH:MM or MM:SS. I think that HH:MM is reasonable/correct - but I will not argue. But you now know how it interprets it so simply detect the NN:NN case and append :00 -- Alain Williams Linux/GNU Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer. +44 (0) 787 668 0256 https://www.phcomp.co.uk/ Parliament Hill Computers. Registration Information: https://www.phcomp.co.uk/Contact.html #include <std_disclaimer.h>
