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bug#11843: date -s vs encoding bug.
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From: |
Jim Meyering |
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Subject: |
bug#11843: date -s vs encoding bug. |
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Date: |
Mon, 02 Jul 2012 19:58:44 +0200 |
Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:
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>> To get the behavior you want (a nominally no-op date-setting command),
>> you should use this instead:
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>> date -s "$(date '+%F %T.%N')"
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> That fails to be a no-op during the ambigous end-of-dst period. Better
> use an unambigous format.
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> # date -s @$(date +%s.%N)
Yep. That is both shorter *and* better :-)
Thanks.