Re: CVS commit: src/bin/date

[Robert Elz <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost>]

    Date:        Sun, 21 Jan 2024 18:16:28 -0000 (UTC)
    From:        christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
    Message-ID:  <uojn1s$kid$1%ciao.gmane.io@localhost>

  | I think this is the yacc used by the build process, not the yacc
  | to build tools with? I.e. will this yacc produce c files usable in
  | the host compilation environment?

I was also looking at that problem, but in a different direction.
Rather than making -d work in the tools date (either by somehow
making parsedate work - which really isn't worth the effort for
this, or via your hack) but by using -j and specifying the date
in canonincal form instead of parsedate random form.

That is, it is trivial to make

	date -j '+whatever format you like' 202401220314

work (including in the tools date), provided you can convert the date
string you're starting with into that canonical form - that takes make
magic, a topic of which I am barely aware exists, let alone competant,
so that was as far as I took it...

kre