From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:49:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use standard -t option for touch.
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0701181147500.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <20070118102814.0C32FA914@diphong.localdomain>

Hi,

Simon, please don't use "undisclosed recipients". After all, this is 
_open_ source, and you make it really inconvenient to reply.

On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:

> Non-GNU touch do not have the -d option to take free form
> date strings.  The POSIX -t option should be more widespread.
> For this to work, date needs to output YYYYMMDDHHMM.SS date strings.

I just checked on an SGI machine, and it has "-t". In related news, it 
also has /usr/bin/printf.

Ciao,
Dscho