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diff --git a/coreutils/Config.in b/coreutils/Config.in index 1e32e2664..fe481ffe1 100644 --- a/coreutils/Config.in +++ b/coreutils/Config.in @@ -115,6 +115,22 @@ config FEATURE_DATE_ISOFMT Enable option (-I) to output an ISO-8601 compliant date/time string. +config FEATURE_DATE_COMPAT + bool "Support weird 'date MMDDhhmm[[YY]YY][.ss]' format" + default y + depends on DATE + help + System time can be set by 'date -s DATE' and simply 'date DATE', + but formats of DATE string are different. 'date DATE' accepts + a rather weird MMDDhhmm[[YY]YY][.ss] format with completely + unnatural placement of year between minutes and seconds. + date -s (and other commands like touch -d) use more sensible + formats (for one, ISO format YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss.ssssss). + + With this option off, 'date DATE' is 'date -s DATE' support + the same format. With it on, 'date DATE' additionally supports + MMDDhhmm[[YY]YY][.ss] format. + config DD bool "dd" default n |