If you want to use the full featured version of time, you need to explicitly use that one, not the bash builtin. This is not a bug.
** Changed in: time (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Rejected -- hoary: Time sees every argument as a program to run. https://launchpad.net/bugs/14172 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs