GNU bug report logs - #21603
touch silently ignores '-d 2014'

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: George Shuklin <george.shuklin <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 14:31:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Assaf Gordon <assafgordon <at> gmail.com>

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From: George Shuklin <george.shuklin <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: touch silently ignores '-d 2014'
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 17:30:35 +0300

Hello.

Strange behaviour:

touch -d 2014 /tmp/new_file

is not changing date for the file. All other formats (f.e. -d 
2014-01-01) work fine.

Version info:
ii  coreutils                           8.21-1ubuntu5.1
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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: George Shuklin <george.shuklin <at> gmail.com>, 21603 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21603: touch silently ignores '-d 2014'
Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 17:12:51 +0100

tag 21603 notabug
close 21603
stop

On 02/10/15 15:30, George Shuklin wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> Strange behaviour:
> 
> touch -d 2014 /tmp/new_file
> 
> is not changing date for the file. All other formats (f.e. -d 
> 2014-01-01) work fine.

Well it's not ignoring it.
It's interpreting as a time 20:14
Date input formats are ambiguous.

thanks,
Pádraig.
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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab <at> linux-m68k.org>
To: George Shuklin <george.shuklin <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 21603 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21603: touch silently ignores '-d 2014'
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2015 19:13:58 +0200

George Shuklin <george.shuklin <at> gmail.com> writes:

> touch -d 2014 /tmp/new_file
>
> is not changing date for the file. All other formats (f.e. -d 
> 2014-01-01) work fine.

Try date -d 2014 to see what it gets.

Andreas.

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