touch -t broken?

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Mon Sep 6 01:41:37 PDT 2004


On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 11:45:35AM -0700, walt wrote:
> This line from a makefile in the ports collection
>   ${TOUCH} -t 200401230000 ${WRKSRC}/Makefile.am.in
> fails with the familiar message:
> touch: out of range or illegal time specification: [[CC]YY]MMDDhhmm[.SS]
> 
> touch -t seems to fail no matter what date/time I give it.
> 
> Any thoughts?

I'll look at it.

Joerg





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