From 10ee20b58b77bdfb941480fdf4b95347c2b2ea79 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Denys Vlasenko Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2011 14:23:42 +0100 Subject: libbb: better comment in parse_date Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko --- libbb/time.c | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'libbb/time.c') diff --git a/libbb/time.c b/libbb/time.c index 1eb2d75c2..e2b938471 100644 --- a/libbb/time.c +++ b/libbb/time.c @@ -91,7 +91,13 @@ void FAST_FUNC parse_datestr(const char *date_str, struct tm *ptm) * .SS Seconds, a number from 0 to 61 (with leap seconds) * Everything but the minutes is optional * - * This coincides with the format of "touch -t TIME" + * "touch -t DATETIME" format: [[[[[YY]YY]MM]DD]hh]mm[.ss] + * Some, but not all, Unix "date DATETIME" commands + * move [[YY]YY] past minutes mm field (!). + * Coreutils date does it, and SUS mandates it. + * (date -s DATETIME does not support this format. lovely!) + * In bbox, this format is special-cased in date applet + * (IOW: this function assumes "touch -t" format). */ unsigned cur_year = ptm->tm_year; int len = strchrnul(date_str, '.') - date_str; -- cgit v1.2.3