hex hates software: date

• From: Earle Martin
  Date: 13:10 on 14 Jan 2004
  Subject: date
  
  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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