Subject: Bug#2475: at' uses middle-endian 2-digit-year date format

From: Thomas Koenig <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 14 Aug 1996 20:07:07 +0200 (MET DST)

Date outputs from 'at' are mandated as

       date +"%a %b %e %T %Y"

(i.e. "Wed Aug 14 20:05:13 1996") by the Posix.2a draft I have, which is
the date used in the upcoming release 3.0 of at(1).

Yep, that's pretty broken.  If anybody has later, better news, please
let me know.
-- 
Thomas Koenig, [email-masked], [email-masked].
The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double
logarithmic diagram.

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From: Ian Jackson <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 96 18:08 BST

> Yep, that's pretty broken.  If anybody has later, better news, please

Of course if we really do not like it we can use ISO standard date
format (say) and only produce the POSIX-mandated format if
POSIXLY_CORRECT is set or some flag is used.

Ian.