[BusyBox] date extension hint for datestr conversion

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Tue Aug 16 11:27:45 MDT 2005


On Monday 15 August 2005 11:55, walter harms wrote:
> Hi List,
> some time ago ii dropped over the problem that
> busybox has only a limited datestring support.
> Since i have often to translate between different date time
> representations this is not so helpfull. so I added the -D switch
> for date that bypasses the datestr interpreter.

If the standard date doesn't have a -D switch (and the man page doesn't show 
one, and trying date -D at the command line says "invalid option"), then what 
you really want is a compile-time option to chop this functionality out.

Rob


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