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On Mon, Mar 28 2011, Toby Allsop wrote :=20

>> Hi,=20
>>=20
>> I can't do on cygwin 1.5.25 :=20
>> $ touch -t 201103270200 file=20
>> touch: format de date invalide `201103270200'=20
>>=20
>> nor this equivalent : $touch -t 03270200 file=20
>>=20
>> It's very surprising , but ...=20
>> If I change 27 for 28 it's OK - idem if i change 2011 by 2010...=20
>=20
> I would guess this has something to do with the transition to daylight=20
> saving time, which happened at 0200 on 2011-03-27.=C2=A0 This means that =
the=20
> time you are specifying didn't ever exist (in your local time zone)=20
> because 0200 became 0300.=20

You are surely right.=20

I could'nt imagine it was a bug! but I am also missing of imagination...=20

Thanks for the answer.=20

-- Andre --=20

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