Re: CVS commit: src/bin/date

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <19118.1705868424%jacaranda.noi.kre.to@localhost>,
Robert Elz  <kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost> wrote:
>    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...

I should have thought of that, duh. This means adding 4 0's in the Makefile...

christos