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From: Earle Martin
Subject: date
Date: 13:10 on 14 Jan 2004
Every time I have to set the date on a Linux box[0] I have to read the
documentation for 'date', because I can never remember what format to
specify. 

earle@batou:~$ date --help | grep MM
  or:  date [-u|--utc|--universal] [MMDDhhmm[[CC]YY][.ss]]

So that's month, day, hour, minute, and *then* [optional] century, year, and
*then* seconds? What kind of crackhead came up with this? Would it have been
too hard to have it understand ISO 8601? FFS.


[0] Before getting it set up to get the time over the network.

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Earle Martin
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