Bug 4820

Summary:	date reports [[[[[YY]YY]MM]DD]hh]mm[.ss] support, but doesn't always provide it
Product:	Busybox	Reporter:	james
Component:	Other	Assignee:	unassigned
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	busybox-cvs
Priority:	P5
Version:	1.19.x
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Host:		Target:
Build:

Description james 2012-02-29 06:42:11 UTC

date's usage help reports [[[[[YY]YY]MM]DD]hh]mm[.ss] support, even if CONFIG_FEATURE_DATE_COMPAT has turned this into MMDDhhmmYYYY.ss support.
Seems like a bit of a dangerous feature to begin with imho...

Comment 1 Denys Vlasenko 2012-03-01 07:36:01 UTC

How about this?

Usage: date [OPTIONS] [+FMT] [TIME]

Display time (using +FMT), or set time

        [-s,--set] TIME Set time to TIME
        -u,--utc        Work in UTC (don't convert to local time)
        -R,--rfc-2822   Output RFC-2822 compliant date string
        -I[SPEC]        Output ISO-8601 compliant date string
                        SPEC='date' (default) for date only,
                        'hours', 'minutes', or 'seconds' for date and
                        time to the indicated precision
        -r,--reference FILE     Display last modification time of FILE
        -d,--date TIME  Display TIME, not 'now'
        -D FMT          Use FMT for -d TIME conversion

Recognized TIME formats:
        hh:mm[:ss]
        [YYYY.]MM.DD-hh:mm[:ss]
        YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm[:ss]
        [[[[[YY]YY]MM]DD]hh]mm[.ss]
        'date TIME' form accepts MMDDhhmm[[YY]YY][.ss] instead

Comment 2 james 2012-03-01 07:52:46 UTC

Looks good.

Comment 3 Denys Vlasenko 2012-03-01 09:56:46 UTC

Fixed in git