Re: Mail problems, not microsoft

[Simon Lockhart <simonl () rd bbc co uk>]

> Similar minor problem here.  An ancient version of GNU date was still
> in-use, and it didn't seem to like the year.
>
>       $ date -d "`date`"
>       date: invalid date.

Indeed, date seems to be one of the things which required patching. On a 
retired, unpatched, SunOS 4.1.3_U1 machine, date returned strange things:

> date +%y%m%d produces
> :00103
>
> date +%Y%m%d gives
> date: bad format character - Y
>
> once patched it gives
> 000103
> and accepts %Y
> date +%Y%m%d
> 20000103

Simon
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