** Also affects: rust-coreutils (Ubuntu Resolute)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: rust-coreutils (Ubuntu Stonking)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Summary changed:
- `sudo date 06110816` fails
+ [SRU] `sudo date 06110816` fails
** Description changed:
+ [ Impact ]
+
The date command interprets dates as numbers instead of as string:
On Jammy:
$ sudo date 06110812
Thu Jun 11 08:12:00 CEST 2026
On Resolute:
$ sudo date 06110812
date: invalid date '6110812'
$ sudo /usr/lib/cargo/bin/coreutils/date 06110816
date: invalid date '6110816'
As a workaround the ISO format can be used. But I still expect the date
command to conform to its online help:
$ date --help
date [OPTION]... [MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss]]
- ---
+
+ [ Test Plan ]
+
+ Check that setting the date works with leading 0 works for the case:
+
+ MMDDhhmm
+ MMDDhhmmYY
+ MMDDhhmmCCYY
+ MMDDhhmmCCYY.ss
+
+ Check that setting the date works using the ISO format.
+
+ [ Where problems could occur ]
+
+ <!-- To be filled when solution is known -->
+
+ [ Other Info ]
+
+ ---
ProblemType: Bug
ApportVersion: 2.34.0-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: KDE
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 26.04
InstallationDate: Installed on 2025-06-20 (356 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 25.10 "Questing Quokka" - Daily amd64 (20250607)
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs
Package: rust-coreutils 0.8.0-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 7.0.0-22.22-generic 7.0.0
Tags: resolute wayland-session
Uname: Linux 7.0.0-22-generic x86_64
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to resolute on 2025-10-30 (223 days ago)
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