options on date

David Collier from_busybox_maillist at dexdyne.com
Mon Jan 17 11:29:00 UTC 2011


Just a thought...

busybox seems to ignore the -s switch on date.

However - for the separately compiled "date" I looked at, -s switches the
date format over to something completely different.

so 

 date -s "...." 
 
 
 would work under busybox, but give an error under Linux... even when 
 
 date "same string" 
 
 would actually work fine under Linux
 
Is there an argument for busybox rejecting the -s option as
"unimplemented" since we don't implement the data format it implies???

D 


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